There are two ways that I know of to check dependencies and see what
packages are safe for removal.
emerge -p depclean ("p" for pretend first to see what will be removed)
0r from the gentoolkit
dep-clean
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From: raptor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pkg's safe for removing ?
I expected somethin like :
query installed pkgs and look at distfile is there some old files that can
be safely deleted.. :"))
list them or directly remove!
> You can remove anything from the distfiles directory. It
> will just download them again. You could check the world
> file or use qpkg -I to list the installed files or epm (I
> think that's the utility) as in epm -qa.
>
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:16:54 +0300
> raptor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >hi,
> >
> >how can I get the list of the packages and their sources
> >(/usr/portage/distfiles) that are safe for removing.
> >And how I have to remove them from the system ? emerge
> >unmerge ? or other way ?
> >One small glitch I don't want to remove sources from
> >pakges that are not installed, only older versions of
> >already installed pakges...
> >
> >
> >My distfiles directory is now ~1.8G
> >
> >thanx
> >raptor
> >
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