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 1M6TXF-0005GN-Jx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 17:55:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25CBEE041F; Tue, 19 May 2009 17:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD1DE041F for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 17:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so4890879ewy.34 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 10:55:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.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=VLASaDHyWWkw+E+65jyC4geqs3x1WA6aXmdhGu+dTbs=; b=dfCzw9gN6BQkb2ueExikQQ/L/J6gh/WE6TZr40ov8LWsbXT5WEnGiWZqEBhnjaeO8H aaF1XoF4vot3SYv9dDw8JZQNDJCMCUPAM8iM0j3PMCSj2SjN9JBApnWTC5Imqhp834og ButTUwrzuTJYIZ09dYvMWg9E46d9O7hx+QRjw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.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=x40HDsZ1S6kfJ2lqF3DP2AgEWuE4whEG4O3vbLiaQ9Tu4UUWhOrDbMGE7p/K4YRt2J q+zfRCzrqFNCsaUKO5H/37QbGTjsrXyVNskOr1DjunCIstiEGS5TZN/hJfmXPtp1st+F baxGe0z23bXY6VtZh5kZ1pce7tW9dz0NJXzCo= Received: by 10.210.60.3 with SMTP id i3mr6224257eba.64.1242755727351; Tue, 19 May 2009 10:55:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm227806ewy.20.2009.05.19.10.55.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 19 May 2009 10:55:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:55:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29.3r4; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090519173201.GA15468@crowfix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090519173201.GA15468@crowfix.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: <200905191955.23653.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3f15fac2-a69f-46b2-931f-b35e905757d1 X-Archives-Hash: 967c4025e8e890baa22bfb43240314bb On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, felix@crowfix.com wrote: > In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with > --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I > update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into > emerge without the benefit of --oneshot. > > So today I started a cleanup project. I began by moving world to > world-bloated and running emerge --depclean -p just to see what would > happen. The answer is ... a loop! > > There were a couple of missing or out of date packages and I emerged > them. But libusb has to be 10.6 to make some packages happy and 10.7 > to satisfy others. > > I have been down this route before. I don't feel like unmerging > either side of the mess, and even if I didn't want the packages, it is > way too much hassle to unmerge them one by one as the list of unhappy > packages grows. > > So, what is the proper way to recreate a proper world file? If > depclean can finally run one of these days when gentoo gets back in > sync, is staring with an empty world file as good as anything else? > The idea of trying to make intelligent guesses about which packages > are truly top level, out of 3000+ packages, is not enticing. nano -w world remove everything you did not install. Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and world will not be bloated at all.