On Friday 21 July 2006 12:50, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Is there any quick command for removing packages that are no > longer in world or one of their dependencies ?
From `man emerge`. Use with care and always investigate with --pretend first.
--depclean
Determines all packages installed on the system that have no explicit
reason
for being there. emerge generates a list of packages which it expects
to be
installed by checking the system package list and the world file. It
then
compares that list to the list of packages which are actually
installed; the
differences are listed as unnecessary packages and then unmerged after a
short timeout. WARNING: Removing some packages may cause packages
which
link to the removed package to stop working and complain about missing
libraries. Re-emerge the complaining package to fix this issue. Note
that
changes in USE flags can drastically affect the output of --depclean.
> AFAIK, emerge -C kills the packages, no matter if someone depends
> on it :(
Correct.
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Bo Andresen
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