From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HBVTL-0000N0-PF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:18:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0TCH3x6024863; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:17:03 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0TCH2Vj024839 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:17:03 GMT Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A2D160D for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:17:02 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:16:54 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: unmerging slotted group packages Message-ID: <20070129121654.5aa49912@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2cvs4 (GTK+ 2.10.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_35x_/azO8i.JczIaVcx=OOx"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 03560c85-51b4-4b67-b97d-3612df3b0241 X-Archives-Hash: 3e9399ccea8fec115550cf1a08dbc77e --Sig_35x_/azO8i.JczIaVcx=OOx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:48:28 +1100, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: > I have now more than 130 orphaned packages. After removing a lot of > gnome related items (I've never run gnome on this system) and a lot of > other things I recognised, I still have more than 130 orphaned > packages, even tho the number of installed packages went from 608 to > 563! > This could take a while, especially as revdep-rebuild is complaining a > lot about stuff I've removed. This is to be expected if you remove only some of the packages listed by depclean, as other packages in the list may depend on them. This is because revdep-rebuild works with installed files not the package list. Wait until you have removed everything in the list before running revdep-rebuild and then emerge -uavDN world. --=20 Neil Bothwick Maybe... How much are you bribing me this time? --Sig_35x_/azO8i.JczIaVcx=OOx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFveW9um4al0N1GQMRAjx+AJ9h8CxPuu6i7CLBio3EVMyj3elv9gCdFQqC jsED5EYmjcuB3jtoWBMRF1A= =yjHI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_35x_/azO8i.JczIaVcx=OOx-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list