Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 04:04, Ben Munat wrote:
So, how do I wind up with 17 packages that need to be updated? Hmm, perhaps
these are all packages on my system that are neither in my world file nor
depdencies of stuff in my world file? Would that then make them orphaned?
And theoretically safe to delete? How does one find out if a specific
package is required by any other packages again?
Only packages you explicitly emerge are recorded in the world profile
(/var/lib/portage/world) dependencies are not. See the man pages for portage
and emerge for more details.
HTH
Thanks... however, I knew this much -- found that I have to be careful with this when
getting going on a new gentoo system. It's handy to say "emerge somephpapp" and get php
and mysql in the process... except then they're not in my world file.... though I suppose
I can always just add them by hand.
But doing an "emerge -D world" should find any dependencies of anything in the world file
that need updating, right? So, my questions still stand: are these packages that
glsa-check is finding stuff that other packages depended on at one point -- so they got
pulled in -- but are now no longer needed? And what tool can I use to ascertain this?
"emerge --depclean" is basically useless... it always wants to uninstall things that I'm
fairly sure are needed. "etcat" doesn't seem to have anything for finding dependecies. And
"equery depends" is still "unimplemented"... (though I thought I'd used that at one point
but it seems to find no results for everything I try).
Ideas anyone? What do you use to keep orphaned packages off your system?
b
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