[gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages
There's an easy way to clean out packages that are no longer required, and were not explicitly emerge'd in, right? -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:45:35 -0500, Justin Hart wrote: There's an easy way to clean out packages that are no longer required, and were not explicitly emerge'd in, right? emerge depclean -p -- Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED],;It's%made in Taiwa~##$ ` #@ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages
Ernie Schroder wrote: Justin Hart wrote: There's an easy way to clean out packages that are no longer required, and were not explicitly emerge'd in, right? -- Justin W. Hart USE WITH CARE It is not fool proof. He's not kiding with that. I usually use that to get the list, then remove them manually. Watch out for the ones with lib in the name. They can break things in a hurry. Don't ask me how I know. Just ask the ones I come here to get help from. ;-) Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:51:47 -0500 Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Hart wrote: There's an easy way to clean out packages that are no longer required, and were not explicitly emerge'd in, right? -- Justin W. Hart # emerge -depclean --pretend will give you a list of orphaned packages. USE WITH CARE It is not fool proof. Although I'd still recommend caution, emerge -uDN world beforehand will make things substantially more reliable. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
