On Monday 16 Feb 2015 16:35:15 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 02:46:01PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote > > > > > I didn't know that. Thanks. I seem to have quite a few in my world file > > > > at > > > > > the moment. I didn't put any of them in there by hand though, to the > > > best of my knowledge. > > > > > > grep -i libs /var/lib/portage/world > > > dev-libs/glib > > > dev-libs/libevent > > > dev-libs/libyaml > > > media-libs/gst-plugins-base > > > media-libs/gst-plugins-base:0.10 > > > media-libs/gstreamer > > > media-libs/gstreamer:0.10 > > > media-libs/libpng > > > media-libs/libpng:1.2 > > > media-libs/libpng:1.5 > > > media-libs/libv4l > > > media-libs/webrtc-audio-processing > > > sys-libs/gpm > > > > > As Peter has noted, you probably updated most of these files manually > > > > without supplying the "-1" (or "--oneshot") option. I do know that > > sys-libs/gpm must be in world if you want a text-console mouse-pointer, > > because it's a user-selected install. I checked on my system. The > > following are on my system, but not in world. > > > > dev-libs/glib > > dev-libs/libevent > > media-libs/libpng (=media-libs/libpng-1.6.16) > > > > If you've emerged any package with the "gstreamer" flag, then... > > > > media-libs/gst-plugins-base > > media-libs/gst-plugins-base:0.10 > > media-libs/gstreamer > > media-libs/gstreamer:0.10 > > > > ...don't belong in world. If you want to clean up world safely, I > > suggest the following... > > > > 1) make a backup of /var/lib/portage/world > > > > 2) edit /var/lib/portage/world, by removing the following lines... > > > > dev-libs/glib > > dev-libs/libevent > > media-libs/libpng > > media-libs/libpng:1.2 > > media-libs/libpng:1.5 > > media-libs/gst-plugins-base > > media-libs/gst-plugins-base:0.10 > > media-libs/gstreamer > > media-libs/gstreamer:0.10 > > > > 3) run the command "emerge -p --depclean" and post the output back here > > before doing anything more. > > > > -- > > Walter Dnes <[email protected]> > > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications > > Thanks for your reply. > > What I've done on two of my gentoo systems is, what had been suggested in > one of the earlier replies to this thread. I ran emerge -C `grep -i libs > /var/lib/portage/world`, followed by emerge @preserved-rebuild. > While on another one of my systems I tried emerge --deselect `grep -i libs > /var/lib/portage/world`, followed by emerge --depclean. > > As a result, I no longer have any libs in my world set. > > I should probably put sys-libs/gpm back into the world set via emerge > --noreplace, based on what you said about the package. > > I should probably look into what does and what doesn't have to go into the > world file. Up until recently I assumed that portage would figure that out > for me.
It does/should. Until you run regenworld, or emerge -u <package>. -- Regards, Mick
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