-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If I'm not mistaken, you can simply run "vim /var/lib/portage/world", :sort it and ddelete the packages you don't need. It did work for me, but I'm not sure if something breaks if you just edit the world file or if you have to chance something else.
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > There was a recent thread about about what should or should not be in > the world file. > > Regarding that, my world file is bloated. Until recently, I had a > tendency to do updates piecemeal but did not use --oneshot. This put > packages in that I do not think belong. > > Looking for a means to clean up the world file, I ran across Ed Catmur's > "dep". > > Has anyone here used it? Is it the best means available to clean the > world file? Anything in the gentoo tree to do this? > > Tony > > BTW, I ran it with the --pretend option and it told me that 44 of the > 119 packages in my world file were redundant. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEr5/TBbWbHb9PeLsRAjFUAJ4sAcpXKSIVch0iT0H1jF9oRYC2tgCfc9Q4 TlDp5dIHwSdNwchjuaeKt7Q= =8E4L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
