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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner lerfovers
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:15:48
Message-Id: CAJ1xhMVR_PXrM=1KfyKiGmK=-Sq6L1siskFBp0wFzUNvZCJ5og@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner lerfovers by Neil Bothwick
1 On Feb 16, 2015 11:26 PM, "Neil Bothwick" <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:35:15 +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
4 >
5 > > What I've done on two of my gentoo systems is, what had been suggested
6 > > in one of the earlier replies to this thread. I ran emerge -C `grep -i
7 > > libs /var/lib/portage/world`, followed by emerge @preserved-rebuild.
8 >
9 > That could have been dangerous, unmerging important libs just because
10 > they have found their way into @world.
11 >
12 > > While on another one of my systems I tried emerge --deselect `grep -i
13 > > libs /var/lib/portage/world`, followed by emerge --depclean.
14 >
15 > That is far more sensible.
16 >
17 > > As a result, I no longer have any libs in my world set.
18 >
19 > Or you could have done
20 >
21 > sed -i /libs\//d /var/lib/portage/world
22 > emerge -ca
23 >
24 >
25 > --
26 > Neil Bothwick
27 >
28 > All things being equal, fat people use more soap.
29
30 Thanks a lot for your feedback. I'm learning as I go.