On Saturday 27 February 2010 06:53:31 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/27/2010 07:21 AM, BRM wrote: > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > >> From: Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> > >> > >>> On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: > >>>>> From: Neil BothwickTo: > >>>>> > >>>>> (PST), BRM wrote: > >>>>>> Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge > >>>>>> --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't > >>>>>> install things left or right to try out either, so typically > >>>>>> upgrades are all I need to do. > >>>>> > >>>>> You should still run --depclean as dependencies change and you > >>>>> could still have plenty of no longer needed ones installed. > >>>> > >>>> Okay - so I ran "emerge --depclean -a" and got the below. I tried > >>>> running "emerge world -vuDNa" as specified, but that didn't resolve > >>>> it either. > >>>> I tried looking in the world file (/var/lib/portage/world) but didn't > >>>> find any entries that felt safe to remove. > >>> > >>> "Safe" as to what? If something is in the world file that you didn't > >> > >> explicitly request, then it doesn't belong there. For example, if you > >> have "x11-libs/qt-gui" in world, you should delete it. The world file > >> should not contain dependencies, it should only contain the stuff you > >> emerged directly. > > > > Okay...that kind of makes more sense now. > > From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big no-no, > > and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really ran > > 'emerge --depclean', which is reporting some 400 packages to remove now > > that I've got that cleaned up. > > emerge -C does the same. It's just that I find it easier to edit the > world file directly (it's just a text file, after all, no magic in > there) if I want to clean up stuff. If you don't want to delete > something from world by hand, simply copy&pasting the line you want > removed to "emerge -C <pasted line>" will have the same result. > > Of course there might be special cases I simply don't know about; so > simply emerge -C instead of removing lines from world if you want to > play it safe.
Does anyone know why regenworld adds a lot of what seem like dependencies into world (e.g. qt libraries)? -- Regards, Mick
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