From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KixEy-0003JG-H4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:15:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C1F8E06D4; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f19.google.com (mail-gx0-f19.google.com [209.85.217.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E31CAE06D4 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:15:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk12 with SMTP id 12so8035448gxk.10 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:15:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=bPkmgzryowdzv5eqAbrwQLW1zWCRH0ltcptLBddLGRk=; b=odBlChVxRd/oXSHVORBFBfcbdbRAGYDVnZZB94yH11Z4S/IKO7kRr7lYXBSMIBKm/v 7uVVSLaGjXKi5qQnnRMSLWcv3Y/nBltCzSZw84MmZX218qXz1aEIb9CxUeOG1U2P4nbo FJXLrO7csZXDv1U7aVEuOasUPOlTuGsz07/w8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=kD/F3mtnFl4CkDH18ruY0Xciuee0OV5xiIDJF/LTncGsRvAgGo4KOUfX7fK3WunTwg XZC3TPW5SpKQalkX1ZF/XfLCgFsBjLHLc0LTldkjM9ailrlAwa5xOG/LGRW7eI4+SBNE 2q6/EA2rWQS5ZSKU7dP6c2f8Cjba62gfNWw54= Received: by 10.65.72.9 with SMTP id z9mr333691qbk.86.1222373705317; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.5? ( [41.243.218.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm1354928qbw.19.2008.09.25.13.15.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:15:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <384d42da0809242105k67b8e3feja376df615350a10c@mail.gmail.com> <6142e6140809250851r45d271b2y600fcddd64cd2550@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6142e6140809250851r45d271b2y600fcddd64cd2550@mail.gmail.com> 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-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809252215.27159.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7f72c7fa-851c-4e6d-bdd9-cd7a28a4d243 X-Archives-Hash: 1d19def580c4ab8601ee5f8a48a9d2bf 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