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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:33:32
Message-Id: 43BAFAAB.1050507@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages by Ernie Schroder
1 Ernie Schroder wrote:
2
3 > Justin Hart wrote:
4 >
5 >> There's an easy way to clean out packages that are no longer required,
6 >> and were not explicitly emerge'd in, right?
7 >> --
8 >> Justin W. Hart
9 >>
10 >>
11 >>
12 > USE WITH CARE It is not fool proof.
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15 He's not kiding with that. I usually use that to get the list, then
16 remove them manually. Watch out for the ones with lib in the name.
17 They can break things in a hurry. Don't ask me how I know. Just ask
18 the ones I come here to get help from. ;-)
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21 Dale
22 :-)
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24
25 --
26 To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
27
28 I have four rigs:
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30 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker
31 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty
32 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey
33 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput
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35 All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
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