Replying to Duncan, Thanks, very informative. I've been doing everything except for --depclean, as that has never worked. Now I see that it is because of kde-3.4 which was built with samba (which I have now removed) and a version of qt that is no longer there.
I used Neil's awk command to remove kde-3.4 and now --depclean works. I have now more than 130 orphaned packages. After removing a lot of gnome related items (I've never run gnome on this system) and a lot of other things I recognised, I still have more than 130 orphaned packages, even tho the number of installed packages went from 608 to 563! This could take a while, especially as revdep-rebuild is complaining a lot about stuff I've removed. BTW FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch fixpackages" -- [email protected] mailing list
