On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:23:28 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > 2017-08-16 10:40 GMT-03:00 Arve Barsnes <[email protected]>: > > > On 16 August 2017 at 13:32, Francisco Ares <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> But, after backing up the original "world" file and replacing with > >> the one built by the script, things don't work as expected, as a lot > >> of packages were orphaned, by checking with "depclean". > >> > >> Anyone could tell me what did I miss? > >> > > > > You're probably getting false positives from equery, as you haven't > > taken USE flags into consideration. > > > > An example: > > # equery d unrar > > app-arch/rar-5.5.0_p20170811 (all_sfx ? app-arch/unrar) > > app-emulation/winetricks-20170614 (rar ? app-arch/unrar) > > > > I don't have the USE="rar" set on winetricks, so although it is > > correct that rar would keep unrar available, since I have > > USE="all_sfx" set, your script will make the wrong choice if I don't > > have rar installed.
> Good point! Back to work. emerge -cpv cat/pkg will tell you whether the package can be removed or if it is needed by something else. It will take a while to run it for every atom in @world but it will give reliable results, as determined by portage. -- Neil Bothwick Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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