Re: [gentoo-user] Questions on the number of packages listed by 'emerge --depclean'

["Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 7/20/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@comcast.net> wrote:
> When I run 'emerge --depclean' I get this at the end as output:
>
>         Packages installed:   2305
>         Packages in world:    1762

WOW! That is a *huge* number of packages in world!

>      1. It seems I'm missing 17 (2322 - 2305 = 17) packages. How can
>         find out the names of these packages?

They are in the depclean output.  If it shows up in depclean, it is
not in world or system, nor a dependancy of something in world or
system.

>      2. It seems that I have 479 (2305 - 1762 - 64 = 479) packages that
>         are in neither world nor system.
>              A. What are the names of these packages?

emerge -Devp system | awk -F'] ' '{ print $2 }' | awk '{ print $1 }' >
~/system_pkgs.txt
equery -i list | grep "/" | while read pkg; do
    pkg="${pkg%-[0-9]*}"
    grep "$pkg" /var/lib/portager/world >/dev/null && continue
    grep "$pkg" ~/system_pkgs.txt >/dev/null && continue
    echo $pkg
done

>              B. How did they get onto my system?

They are dependancies of something in world or system.  "equery depends <pkg>".

>      3. It seems that I have 22 (2305 - 2283 = 22) packages that are
>         slotted. How can I check this?

"emerge --prune --pretend world"

Do *NOT* run this command without the --pretend option.

-Richard
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