On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks guys. I understand how portage works and what to do to clean > things up. That part isn't an issue this time around. > > I'm more trying to understand whether this is just left over from old > installs and hasn't gotten cleaned up along the way. I had about 6 > emul-linux packages. The all were dependencies of the two that are > left so I simply removed them from the world file knowing they'd stay > in and didn't need to be listed. Clearly I can remove these last two > from world and they'll all go away but before I did that I just wanted > to make sure there wasn't anything magic about them. For instance, > maybe the emul-java file is some subset of running java in > firefox-bin? If it was would it show up as a dependency? I don't know. > > None of this is a big deal. I was just poking around and decided to do > an early spring cleaning. > > Cheers, > Mark
My understanding is that nothing goes into world unless you explicitly put it there (either by directly editing the file or by emerging that package directly). So you shouldn't need to worry about dependencies or anything. If that package is needed by something else you've got installed, it'll stay regardless of whether it is in world or not. Paul
