On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:15:48 -0500,
Neil Bothwick wrote:
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> On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:11:42 -0500, John Covici wrote:
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> > > > > hmmm, I do updates on a monthly or more often basis, at the end of
> > > > > each I get the message no outdated packages found on your
> > > > > system. I don't think I should be getting these messages for
> > > > > things like tmux, which updates frequently. Some of these like
> > > > > v8 6d have been necessary for my initrd/frame buffer to work
> > > > > properly, etc.
> > > >
> > > > And win32codecs? That's been obsolete for many years by now. Do
> > > > you *really* have media files that ffmpeg/libav etc. can't handle?
> > >
> > > I am not sure, at one time it was true, but this waws a while ago. I
> > > will see about that one.
> >
> > I did get rid of it, but depclean now says I have 2021 installed
> > packages! This will take weeks to do, I am not even sure the system
> > will stay up that long! We shall see what happens.
>
> It sounds like /etc/portage needs a good clean out. I'd start with
> eix-test-obsolete.
I had never heard of that before, so I will see what it says -- looks
like most of the things in there are obsolete package-use entries
along with a few in package.unmask, but I will get rid of them and see
if that helps any.
Thanks for the hint.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
cov...@ccs.covici.com
