Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 May 2008 10:06:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:18:42 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I somehow doubt that firefox will cease to work if I unmerge > libgnomeui. So what if it does? It not like it will stop your computer booting and is nothing a revdep-rebuild couldn't fix. -- Neil Bothwick 668 - The neighbour of th

[gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread reader
"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

[gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think you should, as long as nothing system-critical is listed, and > emerge shouts loudly about removing those. > I think your are probably right... >> For example, one of the listed pkgs is: >> >> gnome-base/libgnomeui >> >> which equery says `

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
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 lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
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). W

[gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread reader
"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I guess I don't understand how the system got these packages but >> appears not to know much about them. > > Try adding --with-bdeps y and see if that addresses it. I've got this > in my make.conf file It does want to upgrade one of the pkgs with tha

[gentoo-user] Re: eix-test-obolete

2008-05-13 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 13 May 2008 07:18:33 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > I guess I don't understand how the system got these packages but >> > appears not to know much about them. >> >> Try adding --with-bdeps y and see if that addresses it. I've got this >> i