From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about difference between emerge --update world and emerge vigra
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:15:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809252215.27159.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6142e6140809250851r45d271b2y600fcddd64cd2550@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51:58 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > Do you have any further advice, more detail or some more formalized
> > methodology to 'clean' the world file, in addition to what you have
> > stated above?
>
> Every entry in the world file that has a reverse dependency could be
> removed. Unfortunately there is no tool I know which can calculate
> reverse dependencies correctly. Maybe there is some functionality in
> pkgcore or paludis which I am not aware of. So others need to inform
> us about this.
The loooooong way round is to run 'emerge -pvte world' and look for things
listed that are both highlighted in green and indented. Such packages could
in theory be removed from world as they must be a dep of something.
Intelligence must also be applied of course - somethings are deps and you DO
want them in world
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-25 4:05 [gentoo-user] Question about difference between emerge --update world and emerge vigra SOrCErEr
2008-09-25 5:13 ` Thomas Kahle
2008-09-25 6:16 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-09-25 5:24 ` Marc Joliet
2008-09-25 6:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-09-25 9:54 ` SOrCErEr
2008-09-25 10:12 ` Vladimir Rusinov
2008-09-25 10:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-09-26 3:56 ` SOrCErEr
2008-09-25 10:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-09-25 10:27 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-09-25 15:08 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2008-09-25 15:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-09-25 15:51 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-09-25 18:32 ` James
2008-09-29 20:33 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-09-30 11:28 ` Paul Stear
2008-09-30 12:32 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-09-25 20:15 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-09-25 20:55 ` Paul Hartman
2008-09-25 21:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-09-25 21:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-09-25 22:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-09-25 15:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Hilco Wijbenga
2008-09-25 20:38 ` Alan McKinnon
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