[gentoo-user] Re: inkscape emerge

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2011-10-07, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-10-07, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:

>> emerge -p --depclean
>>
>> will show you what packages are installed which you didn't explicitly
>> ask for, and which are no longer depended upon by any
>> explicitly-selected packages.
>
> [...]
>
>> Remove the -p to have portage go ahead and try to remove them. (But
>> you might see something you want to have remain, which is why you
>> should use -p first)
>
> If you do see packages that you want to keep, but aren't required by
> anything else, you can manually add them to your "world" file (usually
> /var/lib/portage/world) to protect them from removal by "emerge
> --depclean" in the future.

I forgot to include this link:

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage#Maintaining_the_World_File

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