Daniel Frey <djqfrey <at> gmail.com> writes:
> For boost and ffmpeg, try running `equery depends <package>` and if no > result comes back it wasn't installed from a dependency. If it does say > another package is pulling it in, remove it from the world file by > using: `emerge --deselect <package>` - in the case of boost it would be > `emerge --deselect dev-libs/boost`. Yea, many of us forget the --oneshot option whilst admining about..... This is a recurring theme. Didn't somebody post a scipt a while back to do this for you in one effort. Then you read the list result and decide which do remove from the world file? I cannot seem to find that script.... James