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From: Justin Hart <justinhart@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:59:38
Message-Id: a330f67d0601031654q57f5ab44j6b0c85d6c64ea03f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages by Dale
1 Good deal. Thanks everyone.
2
3 Justin
4
5 On 1/3/06, Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net> wrote:
6 > Ernie Schroder wrote:
7 >
8 > > Justin Hart wrote:
9 > >
10 > >> There's an easy way to clean out packages that are no longer required,
11 > >> and were not explicitly emerge'd in, right?
12 > >> --
13 > >> Justin W. Hart
14 > >>
15 > >>
16 > >>
17 > > USE WITH CARE It is not fool proof.
18 >
19 >
20 > He's not kiding with that. I usually use that to get the list, then
21 > remove them manually. Watch out for the ones with lib in the name.
22 > They can break things in a hurry. Don't ask me how I know. Just ask
23 > the ones I come here to get help from. ;-)
24 >
25 >
26 > Dale
27 > :-)
28 >
29 >
30 > --
31 > To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
32 >
33 > I have four rigs:
34 >
35 > 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker
36 > 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty
37 > 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey
38 > 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput
39 >
40 > All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
41 >
42 > --
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44 >
45 >
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49 Justin W. Hart
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