On 12/31/06, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <SNIP
Basically, it's a process of using --depclean -p, and getting a list, then using common sense and trial and error to figure out what's safe to remove and what's not. It's not an easy or simple process, which is why there are such big warnings on it. However, it's worthwhile to do once in awhile, both because it helps keep the troubles away, and because stuff that it says needs removed is stuff portage won't be regularly updating, and that can quickly become a security issue if there's a vulnerability in one of those packages.
Hi Duncan, I'm proceeding along getting a number of packages removed which is good. However here's an example one I'm not sure how to handle or why it's showing up. I've run --depclean -p and see what appears to be an unneeded library called libwmf. However when I try tracing my way back to find what depending on it I eventually get to xine-ui which I use all the time: lightning ~ # equery d libwmf [ Searching for packages depending on libwmf... ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.0.5 lightning ~ # equery d imagemagick [ Searching for packages depending on imagemagick... ] gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.2 media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.2-r3 media-video/transcode-1.0.2-r3 lightning ~ # equery d xine-lib [ Searching for packages depending on xine-lib... ] media-sound/amarok-1.4.3-r1 media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5_pre20060716 media-video/totem-2.16.4 lightning ~ # I'm pretty sure that if I removed libwfm I'd find I had to reinstall it. Am I missing something or incorrect in how I'm tracing back through things? Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
