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 1QuZXe-0002nj-DD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:36:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3176621C14B; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (unknown [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7CA21C0B2 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B5CDECC6 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:34:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cLA70PGZdMYP for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:38:08 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B59DEBEC for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:34:34 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:34:33 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E4E50EF.9030904@gmail.com> <4E4E7F01.5060609@gmail.com> <20110819231407.GA4717@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20110819231407.GA4717@waltdnes.org> 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 Message-Id: <201108200134.34129.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1327072f0441cd31a8ea7cd2920c82ba On Saturday 20 August 2011 00:14:07 Walter Dnes wrote: > Here's my "autodepclean" script. It parses the output of a pretend > depclean and generates, but does not execute, a script called > "cleanscript", which has to be run as root. Note the warning to check > "cleanscript" before running it. Remove the commands to unmerge the > stuff you want to keep. In addition to some gentoo-sources kernels, it > now wants to remove nano, ever since "virtual/editor" showed up in > Gentoo. I get the warning... > > !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. > !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. > > Here's the script... Interesting - thanks! It found an unused library file (qdbm) here that nothing else had. One suggestion: I'd create cleanscript in /tmp rather than wherever I happened to be at the time. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23