From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PQIlq-0002UR-ES for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:05:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACC89E076E for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 12:05:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD48E0665 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:23:23 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0LD300EJZWYYHV70@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:23:22 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,315,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="84505413" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:23:22 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id oB8BNMdG029530 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:23:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370B2101 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:23:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:23:29 +0100 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: [gentoo-user] Remove redundant entries in "world" - howto To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.9 Message-id: <1291807409.5304.6@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 3ab6efb2-53ea-4016-bedd-88582a80a9a3 X-Archives-Hash: 7e988db07e0585ff7b167513bea83b4f Hi, does anybody know about an easy method to remove all entries from /var/lib/portage/world which would have been pulled in anyway even if they were not contained in world. My current attempt would be to write a script which executes emerge -vpc on each entry in world. If it wouldn't be removed it's obsolete in world. Unfortunately this has to be done in several rounds. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.