On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tanstaafl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-01-01 6:22 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2) I forget the -1 sometimes when I do an individual package update. >> However I generally remember to go back and hand edit the world file >> once a quarter or so and remove anything that isn't a real >> application, etc. > > > How do you tell which is which?
I have 947 packages installed, but only 103 lines in my world file. All of those should be files that I explicitly chose to install at one time or another. If I don't recognize a line or I don't know what it does, out it goes. Then I'll run a pretend depclean, see if anything I *want* is being removed, select those packages, and try the depclean again. Unless you're a developer, you probably don't need most packages under dev-libs/* or media-libs/* in your world file; any that are actually required should be pulled in as a dependency of something else. -- :wq
