From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HJDEy-00026K-OL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:27:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1JIQMdW011065; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:26:22 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.239]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1JIJ4tu032454 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:19:05 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so188502wxd for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:19:04 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:to:subject:from:content-type:mime-version:newsgroups:references:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:user-agent; b=usnthyK5QQay7EP6hn5i9nnrhZNRbDk2PsD9qMw1jJvGgYUrNbT/sqhWRZ06l3C+/uyNwgvzk577UFuumW9gB0M4UvxlgjceU/+/aWkU1i9RPQ7nYRfv7jdAbhTKyD6eM7t4GIIrhZbiUZtp4YzHkivY0+KsgxhNe6ACWzMPfg8= Received: by 10.70.73.12 with SMTP id v12mr11832711wxa.1171909144575; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:19:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from you.and.your.horse ( [71.233.84.120]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id i13sm9310630wxd.2007.02.19.10.19.03; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:19:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:19:01 -0500 To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild question From: 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user References: <5bdc1c8b0702190823o2985c5bdmf7b404f5b667a0c1@mail.gmail.com> <200702191911.40321.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <5bdc1c8b0702190923i2b3af008x688353b63d540aaa@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.02 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 1cf39b57-7d59-43a0-86c0-3ced236d1667 X-Archives-Hash: b43edfd98ee3fedd4b6699dd7f0b01d3 > Alan, > Seems reasonable. Would I (Could I?) then do an equery depends on > each binary and assuming nothing depends on it remove them by hand > without causing damage? > > I'd want to do another revdep-rebuild every so often to ensure that > things remained consistent. > Makes sense to me - doing the equery on the package that installed the binary (which may have a name unrelated). IIUC, there are two tools useful for second/third opinions for this task; dep and pquery. Here's an example of their use on fftw: dep -L fftw pquery --vdb --revdep sci-libs/fftw And as you idicated, do a revdep-rebuild after the manual deletion. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list