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On Friday 21 July 2006 12:50, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> Is there any quick command for removing packages that are no |
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> longer in world or one of their dependencies ? |
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From `man emerge`. Use with care and always investigate with --pretend first. |
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--depclean |
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Determines all packages installed on the system that have no explicit reason |
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for being there. emerge generates a list of packages which it expects to be |
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installed by checking the system package list and the world file. It then |
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compares that list to the list of packages which are actually installed; the |
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differences are listed as unnecessary packages and then unmerged after a |
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short timeout. WARNING: Removing some packages may cause packages which |
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link to the removed package to stop working and complain about missing |
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libraries. Re-emerge the complaining package to fix this issue. Note that |
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changes in USE flags can drastically affect the output of --depclean. |
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> AFAIK, emerge -C kills the packages, no matter if someone depends |
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> on it :( |
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Correct. |
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Bo Andresen |
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