Re: [gentoo-user] Exercising a bit of caution with prune

2006-07-18 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:34:59 -0500, Dale wrote: emerge -C -p --depclean | grep '^ .*/' 1 | xargs quickpkg emerge --depclean I have buildpkg in make.conf. Isn't that the same thing? Not exactly, but more than close enough for this. I use buildpkg

Re: [gentoo-user] Exercising a bit of caution with prune

2006-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:11:29 -0500, Dale wrote: I know to be careful with some things, gcc, autoconf and such but what in this list can NOT be removed? Some of them I'm not sure about but I don't want to break things either. Explain your thinking/reasons if you can. --prune removed slotted

Re: [gentoo-user] Exercising a bit of caution with prune

2006-07-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: --prune removed slotted packages, which are usually slotted for a reason. This not only applies to autocont, db etc. but also to things like the GNOME/GTK library packages in your list. If you want to find packages that are no longer needed, you should be using emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Exercising a bit of caution with prune

2006-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:26:41 -0500, Dale wrote: Packages installed: 885 Packages in world:163 Packages in system: 59 Unique package names: 854 Required packages:877 Number to remove: 30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # I don't have gnome installed on here

Re: [gentoo-user] Exercising a bit of caution with prune

2006-07-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:54:43 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you could quickpkg them all and unmerge the lot in one go The easy way to do this is emerge -C -p --depclean | grep '^ .*/' 1 | xargs quickpkg emerge --depclean I have buildpkg in make.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Exercising a bit of caution with prune

2006-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:34:59 -0500, Dale wrote: emerge -C -p --depclean | grep '^ .*/' 1 | xargs quickpkg emerge --depclean I have buildpkg in make.conf. Isn't that the same thing? Not exactly, but more than close enough for this. I use buildpkg too, it can save a lot of time and some