On Tue, 13 May 2008 10:06:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > I think you should, as long as nothing system-critical is listed, and > > emerge shouts loudly about removing those. > > > > On a long list of packages to be cleaned I find it comforting to use > > emerge -C package1 package2 package3 > > and watch closely so that nothing system oriented gets taken out.
That's how I do it too. I pick out the packages I'm sure I don't want and
unmerge those, then emerge --depclean -p again, rinse and repeat. You can
run emerge -uavDN world in between steps, but don't try running
revdep-rebuild until you have cleaned out everything you want to.
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