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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:24:28
Message-Id: 4B886622.2020105@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around? by Neil Bothwick
1 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
2 > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge
6 >> --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install
7 >> things left or right to try out either, so typically upgrades are all I
8 >> need to do.
9 >>
10 > You should still run --depclean as dependencies change and you could still
11 > have plenty of no longer needed ones installed.
12 >
13 >
14
15 This is very true. I would say that 90% or so of the things --depclean
16 removes are not related to packages I removed but what has been moved to
17 another package or otherwise satisfied. Lately, there are several
18 packages that have had parts move somewhere else. Then the old package
19 is no longer needed and should be removed. After all, if it doesn't
20 depend on something in the world file, it will never be updated again.
21 It's just sitting there doing nothing but taking up space.
22
23 Wasn't there a thread a year or so ago that listed the commands that
24 should be run from time to time to keep portage healthy? I seem to
25 recall one but it was a while back, maybe a year or more.
26
27 Now to go do my sync and check to see what needs updating.
28
29 Dale
30
31 :-) :-)