On Sunday 26 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 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 I know you can use eix-test-obsolete to find outdated/unneeded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
Have you ever tried regenworld? It sounds less time consuming.
Ciao
Francesco
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