Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

Thank you all, This seems to work pretty good. I reemerged and unmerged most things using emerge --depclean and rebuild it with revdep-rebuild. Ran prelink, but I thought it didn't show up some forgotten links. Looks like this system is pretty clean again. Thank you! Noud -- :3 )~ --

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

On Monday 27 August 2007 03:28:34 W.Kenworthy wrote: Some files did turn out to be from currently installed packages (curl, gnuplot, glade, ...) that revdep-rebuild didnt pick up - a bit of a worry ... Probably the most reliable version of revdep-rebuild currently in the tree is in gentoolkit

[gentoo-user] The big clean up

Hello, I have gentoo running on this laptop for over a year now and I'm quite happy with it. But I have the feeling I emerged to many programs, made to many logs, have sources everywere... to sum it up: it's a small mess. I'd really like to clean things up, order most of the files and remove

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

On Sunday 26 August 2007, Noud Aldenhoven wrote: Hello, I have gentoo running on this laptop for over a year now and I'm quite happy with it. But I have the feeling I emerged to many programs, made to many logs, have sources everywere... to sum it up: it's a small mess. I'd really like to

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

Hello Noud Aldenhoven, I'd really like to clean things up, order most of the files and remove packages which aren't important anymore. But what would be the best stategy to do this? Of course, I could start somewhere and work down and down and down... until I have deleted most unused

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

Also, try running prelink on the system - I found a number of old, orphaned binaries on a ~5yr plus gentoo yesterday that had broken years ago when I ran prelink this time! - it complains about missing dependencies. Some files did turn out to be from currently installed packages (curl, gnuplot,