Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning /var/lib/portage/world

2017-08-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 16 August 2017 18:07:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: > emerge -cpv cat/pkg will tell you whether the package can be removed or > if it is needed by something else. It will take a while to run it for > every atom in @world but it will give reliable results, as determined by > portage. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning /var/lib/portage/world

2017-08-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:23:28 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > 2017-08-16 10:40 GMT-03:00 Arve Barsnes : > > > On 16 August 2017 at 13:32, Francisco Ares wrote: > > > >> But, after backing up the original "world" file and replacing with > >> the one

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning /var/lib/portage/world

2017-08-16 Thread Francisco Ares
2017-08-16 10:40 GMT-03:00 Arve Barsnes : > On 16 August 2017 at 13:32, Francisco Ares wrote: > >> But, after backing up the original "world" file and replacing with the >> one built by the script, things don't work as expected, as a lot of >> packages

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning /var/lib/portage/world

2017-08-16 Thread Arve Barsnes
On 16 August 2017 at 13:32, Francisco Ares wrote: > But, after backing up the original "world" file and replacing with the one > built by the script, things don't work as expected, as a lot of packages > were orphaned, by checking with "depclean". > > Anyone could tell me what

[gentoo-user] cleaning /var/lib/portage/world

2017-08-16 Thread Francisco Ares
Hello, During the process of learning how to manage packages in our beloved distro - and even after knowing how to, but due to being in a hurry - I have my "world" package set a bit cumbered with package names that would not need to be there, as they are dependencies of other packages, as some