[gentoo-user] Depclean question

In preparation for cleaning my world file, I ran emerge -p --depclean
world. It listed these packages to be removed:

app-crypt/gpgme
app-crypt/opencdk
app-text/rman
dev-libs/libtasn1
dev-libs/lzo
dev-python/pyxml
gnome-base/gail
net-libs/gnutls
net-libs/libsoup
perl-core/Storable
perl-core/Test-Simple
sys-devel/bc
virtual/x11
x11-apps/sessreg
x11-apps/ttmkfdir
x11-apps/xcursorgen
x11-apps/xdm
x11-apps/xdriinfo
x11-base/opengl-update
x11-libs/libFS
x11-libs/libXTrap
x11-libs/libXevie
x11-libs/libXprintAppUtil
x11-libs/libXprintUtil
x11-libs/libXvMC
x11-libs/liboldX
x11-themes/gentoo-xcursors
x11-themes/gnome-themes
x11-themes/gtk-engines
x11-themes/xcursor-themes

Obviously many, if not most of them are needed. Remove virtual/x11??????

I noticed that many of them are dependencies of virtual/x11 so I added
that to my world file, re-ran the --depclean and this time got only
about half the recommendations. Was adding virtual/x11 to my world file
the proper thing to do? Wonder why it wasn't there in the first place?

Tony
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On 7/17/06, Anthony E. Caudel <acaudel.TakeThisOut@gt.rr.com> wrote:
> I noticed that many of them are dependencies of virtual/x11 so I added
> that to my world file, re-ran the --depclean and this time got only
> about half the recommendations. Was adding virtual/x11 to my world file
> the proper thing to do? Wonder why it wasn't there in the first place?

Probably not. Prior to modular-X, any package that depended on
anything X related would depend on virtual/x11, which originally could
be provided by xfree86 or x.org, but now just x.org.

As part of porting to modular-X, all (well, almost all) packages that
previously depended on virtual/x11 were updated to depend on _either_
virtual/x11, or the specific modular-X package[s] that they really
needed.

So the above depclean output means that none of those packages are in
your world file, and nothing in your world file depends directly or
indirectly on them, based on your current USE flags. Specifically,
nothing really depends on virtual/x11, because the dependancies are
satified by the various modular-X packages you have installed.

So the proper thing to do here is probably add the specific apps that
you actually care about and use to world.

-Richard
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