From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RhkGS-0000CL-Jn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:57:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A14F821C29B; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 15:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05CC21C277 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 15:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekd41 with SMTP id d41so15391812eek.40 for ; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:53:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=kB+pW/bmU5w0XT2Fxtj2sEsNvxg09+QOVyq8ah2E9Wk=; b=KGPxIp0BJtgizaIQAYez9b5c2/YZkrhQ0MSLKb6INNpdrNhAyatKoq+NhJBs19Bo9z HHgPbGlP0B9NLBFLW2Cjpl7MBE2QDyqdoNho3W9VGpmfoue0it81NGDIhRu8XR2kvHXg 5sReL5mrZXPIEYwbUxa1yxdGwfCaGbyBzbodQ= 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 Received: by 10.205.120.11 with SMTP id fw11mr5672337bkc.89.1325519609983; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:53:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.177.18 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 07:53:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F01CED2.5090806@libertytrek.org> References: <4F00D521.1030702@orlitzky.com> <4F00DA99.8050502@orlitzky.com> <4F00DEC5.5090500@gmail.com> <4F00E741.6050002@orlitzky.com> <4F01CED2.5090806@libertytrek.org> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 10:53:29 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: ca98a710-3f49-4b67-9f8a-1982f8b2ff7d X-Archives-Hash: c3d8d49bec32a9728f7dc0290fde213e On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-01-01 6:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> 2) I forget the -1 sometimes when I do an individual package update. >> However I generally remember to go back and hand edit the world file >> once a quarter or so and remove anything that isn't a real >> application, etc. > > > How do you tell which is which? I have 947 packages installed, but only 103 lines in my world file. All of those should be files that I explicitly chose to install at one time or another. If I don't recognize a line or I don't know what it does, out it goes. Then I'll run a pretend depclean, see if anything I *want* is being removed, select those packages, and try the depclean again. Unless you're a developer, you probably don't need most packages under dev-libs/* or media-libs/* in your world file; any that are actually required should be pulled in as a dependency of something else. -- :wq