Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-10 Thread Mick
On Sunday 10 September 2006 02:16, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 10 September 2006 02:21, Richard Fish wrote: The only one of your entries that gives me pause is the evdev driver, which would be useful for multi-button USB mice or joysticks.  If you use a /dev/input/eventX device in

[gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Peter
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:41:14 +0100, Mick wrote: Hi All, Just ran depclean and the following candicates are shown: === Calculating dependencies... done! These are the packages that would be unmerged: dev-perl/Archive-Zip selected: 1.16

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Toby Cubitt
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 02:26:03PM +, Peter wrote: On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:41:14 +0100, Mick wrote: Hi All, Just ran depclean and the following candicates are shown: === Calculating dependencies... done! [snip] With the exception of tcsh,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/9/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 10 September 2006 02:21, Richard Fish wrote: The only one of your entries that gives me pause is the evdev driver, which would be useful for multi-button USB mice or joysticks.  If you use a /dev/input/eventX device in your xorg.conf, you should keep this around. Just wanted to add