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 1NlH11-0005xy-Uu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:23:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12189E086C; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:22:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08C1E086C for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so489028ewy.26 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:22:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=nMFLbz0GR9S0f0qBmSIfnD/7Weoh2+Qm1sv5/zxKRMQ=; b=DEKB7M0dHQGKnsSpQOjMTb+PPs706uyD4CstnRBGC8vIVu2A6FKqoP7cHviUVF4x6W F+ZzvQtmvNW4p4M6ZgtgUScO1iggF9yRadULMCXeVdU9ikWDD+LSJWMIWdsVpUTopNNl djSyj5Yw5mCJcXNBqBDCQf121UL8twNnrMkbk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=TVpTLetVawEct25fPV4oewjeuzFQH0hcbQt5b5REG8o6EgOXKhqMYSJ2Kr9irgxUQZ U7FEDLiqvZw18myc53wcq8meNl2UlEa3HVfxUsypyi/SduYNJ4b3M0QFaZI5umoAvmdU ydhSaNX8qQviK1ZrOiSTBnMLBW2bTlQBW8Vs4= Received: by 10.213.100.7 with SMTP id w7mr944319ebn.23.1267255331222; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:22:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm500249ewy.2.2010.02.26.23.22.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:22:10 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around? Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:21:54 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r10; KDE/4.3.5; i686; ; ) References: <306987.3768.qm@web65411.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <198957.3239.qm@web65402.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2863132.O1fTWuqqWj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002270722.08208.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4727eb01-08f3-47af-b654-73c546194765 X-Archives-Hash: 4d2da7c902f414c9afe69a2fb8ed3a5f --nextPart2863132.O1fTWuqqWj Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 27 February 2010 06:53:31 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/27/2010 07:21 AM, BRM wrote: > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > >> From: Dale > >> > >>> On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: > >>>>> From: Neil BothwickTo: > >>>>> > >>>>> (PST), BRM wrote: > >>>>>> Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge > >>>>>> --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't > >>>>>> install things left or right to try out either, so typically > >>>>>> upgrades are all I need to do. > >>>>> > >>>>> You should still run --depclean as dependencies change and you > >>>>> could still have plenty of no longer needed ones installed. > >>>> > >>>> Okay - so I ran "emerge --depclean -a" and got the below. I tried > >>>> running "emerge world -vuDNa" as specified, but that didn't resolve > >>>> it either. > >>>> I tried looking in the world file (/var/lib/portage/world) but didn't > >>>> find any entries that felt safe to remove. > >>> > >>> "Safe" as to what? If something is in the world file that you didn't > >> > >> explicitly request, then it doesn't belong there. For example, if you > >> have "x11-libs/qt-gui" in world, you should delete it. The world file > >> should not contain dependencies, it should only contain the stuff you > >> emerged directly. > > > > Okay...that kind of makes more sense now. > > From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big no-n= o, > > and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really ran > > 'emerge --depclean', which is reporting some 400 packages to remove now > > that I've got that cleaned up. >=20 > emerge -C does the same. It's just that I find it easier to edit the > world file directly (it's just a text file, after all, no magic in > there) if I want to clean up stuff. If you don't want to delete > something from world by hand, simply copy&pasting the line you want > removed to "emerge -C " will have the same result. >=20 > Of course there might be special cases I simply don't know about; so > simply emerge -C instead of removing lines from world if you want to > play it safe. Does anyone know why regenworld adds a lot of what seem like dependencies i= nto=20 world (e.g. qt libraries)? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2863132.O1fTWuqqWj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkuIyCAACgkQVTDTR3kpaLapgACg7Xr8A/g8pnJhJPlOTJNH6nm4 N+4AoJheQjOaqUhHoyWsy4phKbjKSpJR =ccKG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2863132.O1fTWuqqWj--