On Friday 21 November 2003 09:37, Jason Evans wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:41:30AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > I suspect that the "rationale" that this has gone on so long is that its > > hardly critical. nice yes, a mild limitation yes, but it wont stop your > > system working, or have dire (note I say dire, not theoretical) security > > consequences to have a little fluff left on a system. The system may > > grow, but only so far. I dont believe rpm handles dependencies all that > > well either (else why do you get into dependency hell so often with > > them!) > > The difference here is that when using RPM, it is painful because it won't > let you do operations that will break runtime dependencies, which means > doing things in an order that RPM will allow. emerge, on the other hand, > is painful because it will happily allow you to irreparably damage your > system, and it provides no mechanism for figuring out what is dangerous and > what isn't.
Just reiterating what was in my other post here. I'm one to browse portage and install this, that and the other and end up with lots of stuff I don't need. To remedy this, every so often I go through the world file (located at /var/cache/edb/world) and delete everything I don't want. I then run "emerge -p depclean", check it to make sure that I didn't miss anything and then do it for real. I've never ran into any problems because I don't change my use flags. For those that do, revdep-rebuild will fix anything broken. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
