Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-28 Thread Noud Aldenhoven
Thank you all, This seems to work pretty good. I reemerged and unmerged most things using emerge --depclean and rebuild it with revdep-rebuild. Ran prelink, but I thought it didn't show up some forgotten links. Looks like this system is pretty clean again. Thank you! Noud -- <:3 )~ -- [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 27 August 2007 03:28:34 W.Kenworthy wrote: > Some files did turn out to be from currently installed packages (curl, > gnuplot, glade, ...) that revdep-rebuild didnt pick up - a bit of a > worry ... Probably the most reliable version of revdep-rebuild currently in the tree is in gentoolk

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
Also, try running prelink on the system - I found a number of old, orphaned binaries on a ~5yr plus gentoo yesterday that had broken years ago when I ran prelink this time! - it complains about missing dependencies. Some files did turn out to be from currently installed packages (curl, gnuplot, gl

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Noud Aldenhoven, > I'd really like to clean things up, order most of the files and remove > packages which aren't important anymore. > > But what would be the best stategy to do this? Of course, I could > start somewhere and work down and down and down... until I have > deleted most unused

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 26 August 2007, Noud Aldenhoven wrote: > Hello, > > I have gentoo running on this laptop for over a year now and I'm quite > happy with it. But I have the feeling I emerged to many programs, made > to many logs, have sources everywere... to sum it up: it's a small > mess. > I'd really lik

[gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-26 Thread Noud Aldenhoven
Hello, I have gentoo running on this laptop for over a year now and I'm quite happy with it. But I have the feeling I emerged to many programs, made to many logs, have sources everywere... to sum it up: it's a small mess. I'd really like to clean things up, order most of the files and remove packa