On 11/19/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No and maybe. I don't use gtkdiff, so I obviously don't care, but a lot of the packages contain libraries. I don't know if I use them or not.
Are these listed in your world (/var/lib/portage/world) file? If so, remove them, do an "emerge -Nuv world". After that, emerge --depclean --pretend will show you things that are not needed anymore. And of course, --pretend --tree is the best way of determining what wants to pull in certain libraries. So you can remove them, and run emerge -v --pretend --tree world to determine what is pulling in these things.
Or is every user expected to go through the list of package dependencies (direct and indirect), examine them, and make a decision for each package?
emerge --depclean can be used to clean out unneeded libraries, but that won't work if your world file is polluted with a bunch of unnecessary things. So in that case, yeah, you will have to things "manually". -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
