On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:35:15 +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:

> 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.

That could have been dangerous, unmerging important libs just because
they have found their way into @world.

> While on another one of my systems I tried emerge --deselect `grep -i
> libs /var/lib/portage/world`, followed by emerge --depclean.

That is far more sensible.
 
> As a result, I no longer have any libs in my world set.

Or you could have done

sed -i /libs\//d /var/lib/portage/world
emerge -ca


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