Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner lerfovers

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Monday 16 Feb 2015 16:35:15 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 02:46:01PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote
> > 
> > > I didn't know that. Thanks. I seem to have quite a few in my world file
> > 
> > at
> > 
> > > the moment. I didn't put any of them in there by hand though, to the
> > > best of my knowledge.
> > > 
> > > grep -i libs /var/lib/portage/world
> > > dev-libs/glib
> > > dev-libs/libevent
> > > dev-libs/libyaml
> > > media-libs/gst-plugins-base
> > > media-libs/gst-plugins-base:0.10
> > > media-libs/gstreamer
> > > media-libs/gstreamer:0.10
> > > media-libs/libpng
> > > media-libs/libpng:1.2
> > > media-libs/libpng:1.5
> > > media-libs/libv4l
> > > media-libs/webrtc-audio-processing
> > > sys-libs/gpm
> > > 
> >   As Peter has noted, you probably updated most of these files manually
> > 
> > without supplying the "-1" (or "--oneshot") option.  I do know that
> > sys-libs/gpm must be in world if you want a text-console mouse-pointer,
> > because it's a user-selected install.  I checked on my system.  The
> > following are on my system, but not in world.
> > 
> > dev-libs/glib
> > dev-libs/libevent
> > media-libs/libpng (=media-libs/libpng-1.6.16)
> > 
> >   If you've emerged any package with the "gstreamer" flag, then...
> > 
> > media-libs/gst-plugins-base
> > media-libs/gst-plugins-base:0.10
> > media-libs/gstreamer
> > media-libs/gstreamer:0.10
> > 
> > ...don't belong in world.  If you want to clean up world safely, I
> > suggest the following...
> > 
> > 1) make a backup of /var/lib/portage/world
> > 
> > 2) edit /var/lib/portage/world, by removing the following lines...
> > 
> > dev-libs/glib
> > dev-libs/libevent
> > media-libs/libpng
> > media-libs/libpng:1.2
> > media-libs/libpng:1.5
> > media-libs/gst-plugins-base
> > media-libs/gst-plugins-base:0.10
> > media-libs/gstreamer
> > media-libs/gstreamer:0.10
> > 
> > 3) run the command "emerge -p --depclean" and post the output back here
> > before doing anything more.
> > 
> > --
> > Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
> > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> What I've done on two of my gentoo systems is, what had been suggested in
> one of the earlier replies to this thread. I ran emerge -C `grep -i libs
> /var/lib/portage/world`, followed by emerge @preserved-rebuild.
> While on another one of my systems I tried emerge --deselect `grep -i libs
> /var/lib/portage/world`, followed by emerge --depclean.
> 
> As a result, I no longer have any libs in my world set.
> 
> I should probably put sys-libs/gpm back into the world set via emerge
> --noreplace, based on what you said about the package.
> 
> I should probably look into what does and what doesn't have to go into the
> world file. Up until recently I assumed that portage would figure that out
> for me.

It does/should.  Until you run regenworld, or emerge -u <package>.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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