Hi Alan, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 6:22:33 PM, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: >> Hi >> >> 'emerge -pv --depclean' shows that these packages may be unmerged: > <snip detail> >> app-crypt/hashalot >> sys-libs/pwdb >> sys-apps/attr >> >> Is it safe to remove they from the system? This is mail server and >> has mostly no additional packages except exim, mysql, spamassassin >> and some other. > This means that you never explicitly merged them, they are not in world > and are no longer required by anything else. There are normally three > reasons: > - you merged something that needed these packages, then unmerged them > later, leaving these dependencies orphaned > - you merged something else that used them, and in a recent update they > are now using something else that provides the same functionality > - they were required by some USE flag you once had, and you have now > changed your USE, so the deps are no longer required. Yes, that the theory I know about :) But looks like they are not in world list of stage3. I'm 99% sure I didn't merge hashalot & attr (as dependencies too). > You'll need to look at each package and figure out if YOU need them, as > we can't tell you that. I might think that you don't need your wife > under any circumstances, and you might strongly disagree :-) :) > I once knew what hashalot does. I forgot. It's something to do with > cryptography %description This program will read a passphrase from standard input and print a binary (not printable) hash to standard output. The output is suitable for use as an encryption key. > pwdb is used as a password and user account configuration thingy. Looks > pretty important :-) I think so. > attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, used > by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use these features, you > already are aware of it. So, if I use reiserfs w/o ext attrs (option in kernel), I don't need it probably. Correct? > When you figure out which ones to keep, it's best to put them in your > world file. Either edit /var/lib/portage/world and stick the name at > the end, or run 'emerge -n <package-name>' Thanks. > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
