On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:03:30PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2005 09:44:07 -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > > > There are various packages on my system that are not listed in > > /var/lib/portage/world, most recently I notice Firefox is one. Any > > ideas why that might be? > > It could have been installed as a dependency of something else.
Strange, I think of something so big as Firefox as being a leaf...but looking back in my admin notes the first mention of Firefox was a previous instance when it was out of date and I manually updated it. > Run "emerge -p depclean". If it wants to remove anything you want to > keep, add the package to /var/lib/portage/world. Very good. Thanks! -kb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
