Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove all perl?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 31/07/2014 10:12, Dale wrote:
>> Mick wrote:
>>> On Thursday 31 Jul 2014 06:14:56 J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>>
>>>> I always check the list from depclean to see if there is any package and/or
>>>> version that I am actually using. If yes, I add it to the world file.
>>>> (Emerge --noreplace)
>>> I don't add packages to my world file, let alone specific versions, unless I 
>>> want them to be there.  I let portage manage versions and dependencies.
>> If you don't add anything to your world file, how do you keep anything
>> installed and updated?  Unless you just use sets, which is basically the
>> same thing as putting a package in world, then it should be in the world
>> file. 
>>
>> There are times when versions are required tho.  I know I do that for my
>> kernel.  I always keep my current kernel and my backup kernel version at
>> least.  Every once in a while, I go through and clean them manually. 
>>
>> For some people, there may be other packages that need to be done that
>> way.  One of those "your mileage may vary" type things.  ;-)
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
>>
>>
>>
> I think Mick means more that he doesn't like adding libs and modules and
> plugins to world, and doesn't mean the actual apps.
>
> So he would add a music player to world, and let portage plus USE figure
> out which of the 500 odd bits of gstreamer to pull in and install
>
>
>

Ahhh.  OK.  I was curious because when something is installed, it has to
be recorded somewhere for it to get updated etc.  Running emerge
--depclean would be interesting too. 

Thanks for kicking me into gear.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)