From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 08:49:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905220849.39876.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905212311.22880.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On Friday 22 May 2009 00:11:12 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Edit the world file and remove every version number in that file if
> > present. You don;t need it and portage is infinitely better at tracking
> > it than you are. Then remove everything with a category ending in "lib",
> > these rarely need to be in world.
>
> Arrrgh! Does this mean that I shouldn't have all these in there:
>
> media-libs/libdvdcss
> media-libs/libdvdnav
> media-libs/libdvdread
> media-libs/libflash
> media-libs/libmodplug
> media-libs/libmp4v2
> media-libs/libmpcdec
> media-libs/libmpeg2
> media-libs/libmpeg3
> media-libs/libogg
> media-libs/libpng
> media-libs/libquicktime
> media-libs/libsamplerate
> media-libs/libsdl
> media-libs/libtheora
>
> Also, as you can see from media-libs/libmpeg am I having duplicate packages
> in there?
Those are useful packages, so you probably do want them. Just not in world :-)
If --depclean wants to remove them, you could add them back, or look closely
at your media apps to see which USE has been removed.
libmpeg2 and libmpeg3 are different packages. The numbers are part of the
name, not a version number.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-22 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-19 17:32 [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world felix
2009-05-19 17:55 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-19 18:25 ` felix
2009-05-19 18:35 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2009-05-19 19:31 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-20 14:24 ` Paul Hartman
2009-05-28 15:31 ` Valmor de Almeida
2009-05-28 15:38 ` Mark Knecht
2009-05-19 18:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-21 22:11 ` Mick
2009-05-21 22:23 ` Paul Hartman
2009-05-22 6:49 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-05-19 18:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-05-19 18:16 ` Daniel Iliev
2009-05-19 18:21 ` Stroller
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