is it a way to remove "orphan" packages?

Angelus

I'm really new in gentoo, and i already fell in love with it, but have one thing that i'd like to to and still can't find a way to do it.

Is it posible to remove packages that are no longer needed ? those installed because where needed when some other package was installed, but then this package was removed and then created this "orphan" ones. Something like Aptiude did in Debian.

Thanks in advance

scmasaru · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 36

emerge --depclean

Angelus · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 9:07 pm Post subject: =)

sorry, must have missed that in man =)

thanks

jcosters · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 9:39 pm Post subject:

when I run emerge -p depclean it tells me it will unmerge modutils, that package shouldn't be deleted, right? so beware.

scmasaru · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 36

If you want to prevent certain package from being unmerged.
Add a line to /var/cache/edb/world

Angelus · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 10:00 pm Post subject: Really love the gentoo comunity

even doing a silly question, got good answers really fast. People are nice here, that's a really good thing.

i tried the emerge -p --depclean and it shows modutils too. I don't think i'll ever run emerge --depclean, but i'll definitly use it with --pretend to suggest me the ones i should remove, and then remove them manually.

I love Gentoo

dilandau · Guru Joined: 24 May 2003 Posts: 485 Location: germany

see also this thread:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1803359#1803359
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