On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know about an easy method to remove all entries from > /var/lib/portage/world > which would have been pulled in anyway > even if they were not contained in world. > > My current attempt would be to write a script > which executes emerge -vpc on each entry in world. > If it wouldn't be removed it's obsolete in world. > > Unfortunately this has to be done in several rounds. > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut. > >
In my experience the world file isn't huge - 50-100 lines - but only if it contains the things that really need to be there. I've simply commented out specific entries and run emerge -pvDuN @world to determine if the entry wasn't necessary, and if it wasn't then removed it. When I've boiled it down to things that need to be there (I.e. - I can still run emerge -pvDuN @world and there would be no changes) then I run emerge - p --depclean to look at what can be removed, make sure it's OK, and then run depclean for real. Hope this helps, Mark
