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[gentoo-user] Re: Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

Michael Schmarck

2008-04-08

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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@(protected):

> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote:
>> Connected question: How do I quickly find all the packages that
>> got installed as a dependency, but which are no longer needed,
>> because the dependent package got removed (as an example, I'd
>> like to find kde-i18n, because that used to be a dependency of
>> kde-meta and kde-meta is no longer installed).
>
> emerge --depclean

thanks. 200 some packages, which would be removed. Quite a
lot.

After removing stuff, a revdep-rebuild should be done, shouldn't
it?

Michael

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