Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean

["Michael W. Holdeman" <lists@ptfd.org>]

On Friday 19 August 2005 06:08 am, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:59:24 +0200, Sébastien MORAND wrote:
> > Now I try the dangerous following command as describe in the
> > documentation : emerge --depclean -p (just to see what should be done)
> >
> > And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among
> > them, a lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...)
> >
> > Is this result normal ? What did I miss ?
>
> This looks normal. For example, if you have -ldap in USE, you are
> unlikely to need perl-ldap. Packages like these are generally only
> installed as dependencies, they are not "end user" software, if nothing
> needs them, they may as well be removed.
>
> You can run emerge world -uavDN and revdep-rebuild -p after removing
> them, just to be certain your system is consistent.

Where do we easily find a list of "necessary" files, system files etc... so we 
dont inaverdently remove them? For instance I am using udev for some time 
now, can I let depclean remove devfsd?

Mike
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Michael W. Holdeman


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