From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C787D139083 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:24:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35E43E1007; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a2-out-001.smtp25.com (a2-out-001.smtp25.com [50.201.66.168]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6E19E0FFA for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id vB4DNvMN006069 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 08:23:57 -0500 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.13.7/Submit) id vB4DNvun006068; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 08:23:57 -0500 Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:23:57 -0500 Message-ID: From: John Covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Again, emerge -e @world related questions... In-Reply-To: <20171204131548.0f9de008@digimed.co.uk> References: <20171204025840.zyhjplahwxybr5gp@solfire> <9ce7b35e-5d5a-2478-027f-412c7ccf95c1@iinet.net.au> <22245006.9JRjYOos8d@thetick> <20171204131548.0f9de008@digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/25.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Organization: Covici Computer Systems 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 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SpamH-Filter: a2-out-001.smtp25.com-vB4DNvcB014334 X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-Archives-Salt: a504489c-d18b-4086-a90b-cfa5ca236eaf X-Archives-Hash: 9b0974a583a13085fd96ce8e7c1817e4 On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:15:48 -0500, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:11:42 -0500, John Covici wrote: > > > > > > hmmm, I do updates on a monthly or more often basis, at the end of > > > > > each I get the message no outdated packages found on your > > > > > system. I don't think I should be getting these messages for > > > > > things like tmux, which updates frequently. Some of these like > > > > > v8 6d have been necessary for my initrd/frame buffer to work > > > > > properly, etc. > > > > > > > > And win32codecs? That's been obsolete for many years by now. Do > > > > you *really* have media files that ffmpeg/libav etc. can't handle? > > > > > > I am not sure, at one time it was true, but this waws a while ago. I > > > will see about that one. > > > > I did get rid of it, but depclean now says I have 2021 installed > > packages! This will take weeks to do, I am not even sure the system > > will stay up that long! We shall see what happens. > > It sounds like /etc/portage needs a good clean out. I'd start with > eix-test-obsolete. I had never heard of that before, so I will see what it says -- looks like most of the things in there are obsolete package-use entries along with a few in package.unmask, but I will get rid of them and see if that helps any. Thanks for the hint. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com