Michael Schmarck wrote:
>
> Connected question: How do I quickly find all the packages that
> got installed as a dependency, but which are no longer needed,
> because the dependent package got removed (as an example, I'd 
> like to find kde-i18n, because that used to be a dependency of
> kde-meta and kde-meta is no longer installed).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
>   

emerge -p depclean will give you a list of all of those packages, and 
you can then add to your world file, or uninstall as you see fit....

Be *extremely* careful with this command though...

Anthony