On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 04:06:52 +0100, David Haller wrote:

> # wc -l /var/lib/portage/world
> 1140 /var/lib/portage/world
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Looking it over, it looks right though.

It sounds a lot, but only you know what you need. For comparison I have
217 packages in world plus about another 70 in some sets, under 300 in
total on a fairly busy KDE box.

Look through your world file, it should contain only packages that you use
directly. grep lib /var/lib/portage/world should return very little.

> And --depclean is hopelessly overeager here.
> 
> ====
> Packages installed:   3511
> Packages in world:    1140
> Packages in system:   43
> Required packages:    2581
> Number to remove:     930

I think you need to clean that up first, although it may be that things
are bad enough to warrant renaming the world file then doing emerge -n
for each package you need. Then run depclean -p and look for anything
else you need, add it with emerge -n, rinse and repeat until nothing you
use directly appears in the depclean output.

A quickpkg of the entire system before you start may be wise.


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Neil Bothwick

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the target.