On Friday 19 August 2005 06:08 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:59:24 +0200, Sébastien MORAND wrote: > > Now I try the dangerous following command as describe in the > > documentation : emerge --depclean -p (just to see what should be done) > > > > And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among > > them, a lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...) > > > > Is this result normal ? What did I miss ? > > This looks normal. For example, if you have -ldap in USE, you are > unlikely to need perl-ldap. Packages like these are generally only > installed as dependencies, they are not "end user" software, if nothing > needs them, they may as well be removed. > > You can run emerge world -uavDN and revdep-rebuild -p after removing > them, just to be certain your system is consistent.
Where do we easily find a list of "necessary" files, system files etc... so we dont inaverdently remove them? For instance I am using udev for some time now, can I let depclean remove devfsd? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman ________________________________________ Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | ________________________________________| -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
