On Sunday 10 September 2006 00:09, Toby Cubitt wrote: > If depclean has listed the packages, I'm fairly sure that means > portage couldn't find anything in "system" or "world" that depends on > it (or anything that depends on something that depends on it, > etc.). So querying for dependencies is, by definition, going to return > nothing.
Actually, for some of them equery did find dependencies - so I left them well alone. For a few of these it did not, in which case I unmerged them. > That doesn't necessarily mean the packages can safely be removed (I > once borked my system badly by making that assumption). Look at the > package descriptions or google them to try to find out what exactly > they do before you decide it's safe to remove them. Usually, even if > the package *is* required, all that happens is some program will no > longer run and you'll need to re-emerge the package. You can then add > it to world so that it's not picked up by depclean in the future. In > the worst case, you find you've remove something essential and the > system no longer even boots. (That's what happened to me, with libcap > if I remember right.) I'll keep an eye out for dependency related breakages and no doubt repost if I get lost (it happens rather often lately! ;-) Thank you all for your help and guidance. -- Regards, Mick
pgpvwXL46Ara3.pgp
Description: PGP signature
