On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and >> > world will not be bloated at all. >> >> Because I don't always want it to upgrade everything it wants to.> > > then mask the stuff. > > Usually dependencies don't end up in world. But thanks to the stuff you do > they did. Now you have a monster - starting to delete lines is a first step. > > Look into /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages. > Everything in there must not be in your world file. > > Afterwards start the big deleting. You have gnome installed? Remove everything > X11, glib, gtk from world. kde? qt does not belong there. > > With a little bit of thinking you can reduce world A LOT.
Another one is that anything beginning with lib* almost never needs to be in world. Basically as others have said, my thought process is that if it is not a program that I use directly, it does not need to be in world. The exception being optional helper apps for certain multimedia programs that are not dependencies, but will be used to enhance the operation of the program if they are present. (think of various media encoders/decoders etc)
