On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:33:04 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> > Yes they have. Remove anything in the least suspect and emerge -cp.
> > Then emerge -n anything listed that you need.  
> 
> I don't know which ones I need, and I can't just remove them and cross 
> my fingers, because these are live servers.

You remove them from the world file, not the system. Then run emerge -cp
to seen what would be depcleaned. Nothing is uninstalled and nothing
stops working.

> > There was a script floating around that created a new world file that
> > contained all installed packages that were not a dependency of another
> > installed package. It's not a perfect fix, but pretty close.  
> 
> I gave a concrete example from one of our web servers where this would 
> remove something important.

How so? If anything that was not a dependency of something else was in
the world file, how could anything be removed?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I'm not a complete idiot - several parts are missing.