Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Leonid Podolny wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I'm sure that this issue has already been discussed here, but I can't >>> find any such discussions. >>> Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed >>> packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to >>> have a layman overlay and now I deleted it, all the packages that >>> belonged to that overlay are now orphans. I would like at least to >>> get a >>> list of those packages. >> >> emerge --depclean -p and make sure everything looks OK. > > That's not what it does :P depclean only removes packages that are > not in world and are not a dependency of another package. You can > emerge package foo from overlay bar and then remove the overlay, but > depclean won't clean it because it's still in world. > > >
I missed the overlay part. I thought he was talking about removing dependencies of a removed package that nothing else needed. Sorry for the confusion. Dale :-) :-)
