"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:46:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > > Another possibility is that ypou merged them with the --oneshot >> > > option, or that they were pulled in as a dependency of a package you >> > > no longer have (or has been updated to a version that is no longer >> > > dependent on them). What does "emerge --depclean -p" show? >> > >> > Along with dire warnings about ruining your system it lists 80 pkgs to >> > be removed. Some are also on the eix-test-obsolete list of 14. >> > >> > I suspect I had better not allow it to actually remove these pkgs. >> >> I think you should, as long as nothing system-critical is listed, and >> emerge shouts loudly about removing those. >> > > On a long list of packages to be cleaned I find it comforting to use > emerge -C package1 package2 package3 > and watch closely so that nothing system oriented gets taken out. > > I've made the mistake of doing > emerge --depclean on a long list of > files and then having a system that was hard to fix.
> Just my take on being careful. > Sound advice... I too have got in trouble doing that... hence my chicken pucky approach this time. A step up from your advice (on a really long list) is to do it with a list in a file. Then `for jj in `cat list`' loop down the list with `if [[ $jj =~ regex ]]' using the -a flag to emerge. At least getting a group of several at a time. I once had to clean up a borrowed gentoo vmappliance and rebuild it to my liking... There were very long lists during that process. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
