On Monday 29 September 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
Don't rely on this script to much. Because it works for me must not
mean it does for you. I have tested some cases and I worked every time
until now. So verify the output of a manual emerge -pv --depclean
atom on the unneeded entry first to
2008/9/30 Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi Daniel,
I thought I would try your script but I get an error when I run it:-
Uncaught exception from user code:
Unrecognized character \xC2 at ./WorldCleanCheck line 29.
at ./WorldCleanCheck line 29
I do not know what \xC2 is
Any ideas how
James schrieb am 25.09.2008 20:32:
Surely many folks would benefit from a formal, systematic approach
to cleaning the world file? I know every now and then, when a gentoo
workstation gives me fits, I just emerge and unemerge things until
it's happy (while multitasking too much). Often this
Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielmeier at googlemail.com writes:
Also make sure you have a clean world file, which means if there is an
entry which is already needed by something else it should normally be
removed as this could cause problems.
Ahhh,
Excellent point that I have been pondering
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:08:23 + (UTC), James wrote:
Do you have any further advice, more detail or some more formalized
methodology to 'clean' the world file,
Hack out anything you think is unnecessary
Run emerge --depclean -p
Add anything you need with emerge -n
Rinse and repeat
--
Neil
2008/9/25 James [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Do you have any further advice, more detail or some more formalized
methodology
to 'clean' the world file, in addition to what you have stated above?
Every entry in the world file that has a reverse dependency could be
removed. Unfortunately there is no
Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielmeier at googlemail.com writes:
to 'clean' the world file, in addition to what you have stated above?
[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172611
Daniel
Hello Daniel,
What you have told me looks interesting. However, for now, I'm going
to clean up the
On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51:58 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
Do you have any further advice, more detail or some more formalized
methodology to 'clean' the world file, in addition to what you have
stated above?
Every entry in the world file that has a reverse dependency could be
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51:58 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
Do you have any further advice, more detail or some more formalized
methodology to 'clean' the world file, in addition to what you have
stated above?
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:55:10 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
Yes, basically my philosophy is only to list in world the actual
programs I want to use.
Same here, which is why I recommended editing the world file. Anything
you don't use directly can go. It's also a good way of cleaning
out those
On Thursday 25 September 2008 23:43:07 Neil Bothwick wrote:
Some packages have optional run-time deps, say a multimedia
program that can convert files if you have ffmpeg installed, so in
those cases those optional packages will also be in world.
That shouldn't happen. Portage is supposed
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:59:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
That shouldn't happen.
That would indeed be a truly wonderful thing...
Note that I used shouldn't and not doesn't :(
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Neil Bothwick
He's so cool, he could get frostbite from masturbating.
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