From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 751D213877A for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:36:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3EC8E08EF; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:36:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yk0-f174.google.com (mail-yk0-f174.google.com [209.85.160.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4C40E08B0 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yk0-f174.google.com with SMTP id q9so1365238ykb.5 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 01:36:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1R2L2RxYxHrU0RCICzKw8959ZiHCvgvz/1wywrb4WQc=; b=yf4MIHlqPCxqIwynePUYLh7e3XXgxWnAeXPH+m3a22msjqLs1+Mq6iSi92NzDzvW/i JCLahWgbZH04GSEMi5qkEVmOYODj1lcSU4EKaUmX8Ne9I6365Z2zTlzteAOh0qM/CRZF hYCpC1SR5N84qdnCKfKST8yVJR8xvCnC4Rj4AbSNAt/ro5w/CXS8KndodYkNUwwe3Umb GnIhBDAdHx8hHiS5mKJtpGK8yID0dt+Zq/Qa1y07VhC9g1Xyou145NhUc+3cwLwausVD mYWgd9gh4syCRnR6LdE4UaZ6opZcejTaKkRShdb2T1Vf4FnR+zp3K7Q7ln5KyxUGEIDo uG1A== X-Received: by 10.236.15.6 with SMTP id e6mr4081089yhe.43.1406795795843; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 01:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-95-27.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.95.27]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id k7sm7983643yhl.26.2014.07.31.01.36.34 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 31 Jul 2014 01:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53DA0012.5080007@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 03:36:34 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove all perl? References: <201407302247.38405.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201407310648.02778.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <53D9FA53.6060402@gmail.com> <53D9FC1E.1070609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53D9FC1E.1070609@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 87c8563e-518e-4c90-8d6b-e211a2b99f48 X-Archives-Hash: f2d0de9cb058e80686b253d4c04b22c5 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 :-) :-)