On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Edit the world file and remove every version number in that file if >> present. You don;t need it and portage is infinitely better at tracking it >> than you are. Then remove everything with a category ending in "lib", these >> rarely need to be in world. > > Arrrgh! Does this mean that I shouldn't have all these in there: > > media-libs/libdvdcss > media-libs/libdvdnav > media-libs/libdvdread > media-libs/libflash > media-libs/libmodplug > media-libs/libmp4v2 > media-libs/libmpcdec > media-libs/libmpeg2 > media-libs/libmpeg3 > media-libs/libogg > media-libs/libpng > media-libs/libquicktime > media-libs/libsamplerate > media-libs/libsdl > media-libs/libtheora > > Also, as you can see from media-libs/libmpeg am I having duplicate packages in > there?
I think libmpeg2 and libmpeg3 are two distinct packages (2 and 3 are the mpeg version and part of the library name, not the package version) and yes, those probably don't need to be there UNLESS you are a developer and use them -- but if you only want libs that are required by installed programs, then you most likely shouldn't have them in world.