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 1H15lU-0004Z9-WF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:50:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBVImfpY017172; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:48:41 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBVImfnN001179 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:48:41 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so10246019nfb for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:48:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hYiIyYmadosyAQC5jonJSZzjNyIiH5tZ0DJp6heVaQPfLHq2Cjt7MuHf88L1PCbkzQI2Qb4AR0YlHwb8a2CDDWHKgx0ikNgrCilBniew/WKd8P2+Cu6TyQ/fLQmTE0MD3VIvSMS3IsBYpPn7OJZ/PLfTchztzJLYtt2yCyPDVVU= Received: by 10.82.120.15 with SMTP id s15mr1738945buc.1167590921076; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:48:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.106.18 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:48:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0612311048p7b4e7a8dm508337cc8ad52c2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:48:40 -0800 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge --depclean question In-Reply-To: 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0612301751k5f65c464nf8b9bd99c3b75091@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: fd1d2c76-9b39-4589-bec3-43c780a1e8cf X-Archives-Hash: c3e2e43183bf001b67e607f2970cecb2 On 12/31/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote: > Basically, it's a process of using --depclean -p, and getting a list, then > using common sense and trial and error to figure out what's safe to remove > and what's not. It's not an easy or simple process, which is why there > are such big warnings on it. However, it's worthwhile to do once in > awhile, both because it helps keep the troubles away, and because stuff > that it says needs removed is stuff portage won't be regularly updating, > and that can quickly become a security issue if there's a vulnerability in > one of those packages. > Hi Duncan, I'm proceeding along getting a number of packages removed which is good. However here's an example one I'm not sure how to handle or why it's showing up. I've run --depclean -p and see what appears to be an unneeded library called libwmf. However when I try tracing my way back to find what depending on it I eventually get to xine-ui which I use all the time: lightning ~ # equery d libwmf [ Searching for packages depending on libwmf... ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.0.5 lightning ~ # equery d imagemagick [ Searching for packages depending on imagemagick... ] gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.2 media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.2-r3 media-video/transcode-1.0.2-r3 lightning ~ # equery d xine-lib [ Searching for packages depending on xine-lib... ] media-sound/amarok-1.4.3-r1 media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5_pre20060716 media-video/totem-2.16.4 lightning ~ # I'm pretty sure that if I removed libwfm I'd find I had to reinstall it. Am I missing something or incorrect in how I'm tracing back through things? Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list