On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> It should be easy enough to write a program that examines world and displays >> all packages it finds that are dependencies of something else in world, but I >> haven't found one, and prefer the manual approach above. >> >> >> > > I know you can use eix-test-obsolete to find outdated/unneeded thing in > /etc/portage but I wish it would also do something similiar for the > world file. I just wonder if the person that wrote eix and friends > could add that in as a feature? It would be neat. eix works really > well for what it does. > > Is their anyone we could sort of poke to work on this? > > Dale
My experience with the world file is I'll first make a copy and then start deleting individual lines I think aren't required. If I'm right then emerge -p --depclean won't try to take anything off the system. If I'm wrong then I add the line back in. I'm blank right now as to whether you can just comment out a line in the world file. Maybe that works also. Anyway, my definition of a minimal world file is I have all the software I want and need, the fewest lines in the world file, and --depclean/revdep-rebuild are happy. - Mark
