Michael Schmarck wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, 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).
>>>       
>> emerge --depclean
>>     
>
> thanks. 200 some packages, which would be removed. Quite a 
> lot.
>
> After removing stuff, a revdep-rebuild should be done, shouldn't
> it?
>
> Michael
>
>   
Yup :) I would also recommend removing packages by hand.....I won't go 
into detail, but last time I didn't do that, it took me two weeks to 
recover!