On Saturday 08 July 2006 14:06, Daniel Waeber wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, you can simply run "vim /var/lib/portage/world",
>
> :sort it and ddelete the packages you don't need. It did work for me,
>
> but I'm not sure if something breaks if you just edit the world file
> or if you have to chance something else.
I think the question is more subtle, the problem arises when you want to
remove from /var/lib/portage/world those entries belonging to program
that would *not* be unmerged by emerge --depclean (as deeper
dependencies of some other package), whether they are listed in world
file or not. All those entries are redundant.
I used dep for a while, then I switched to unclepine [1], I don't know
if today there are suitable tools. IIRC regenworld can be a lifesaver
but nonetheless is the biggest redundancy builder.
ciao
Francesco
[1] http://gentooexperimental.org/script/repo/show/27
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