List unneeded packages

zfarkas · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 6

Hi!

I've created a small script to list "unneeded" packages.
It list packages, which can't be found in the deps of any other package.

The script is located at http://cvs.lpds.sztaki.hu/~zfarkas/list_nodeps.sh

Comments are highly welcome!

Zoltan

fctk · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:04 am Post subject:

there's already a tool called "unclepine" which just do this and more other things... but maybe your script is better...

Keffin · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:05 am Post subject:

What does this do that is different to "emerge --depclean"?
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kallamej · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:28 am Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Unsupported Software.

fctk · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject:

zfarkas · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 6

Hi!

Right now I do not have root access to Gentoo machines, so the script may not work. Hope this will change in the near future.
But I`ve tried to correct a reported error: in case of a lot of packeges installed, it may say "too many arguments" or something like this.
You may download the actual version from the same URL.

Zoltan