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On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 07:21:01 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > It's like being a teenager again, the longer you leave tidying your |
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> > room, the longer it takes when your mum makes you do it :) |
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> Don't want to harp on it, but I almost never have to clean my world |
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> file, and when I do I don't need any tools at all to make it happen. |
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> This is because the world file revolves around me and my true |
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> requirements, and not an endless list of hints to try to get the |
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> package manager to do what I want it to do. |
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We're talking about /etc/portage/package.* here. not @world. I too rarely |
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need to touch world. |
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> I think we need to get away from solutions that clutter up |
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> configuration in the first place. I'm not under any illusions that |
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> this will ever be perfect, but I do think we can do better. |
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Agreed, but this is about managing the options we have now. Like it or |
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not, we need to put extra entries in package.use and eix-test-obsolete is |
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the best current way of removing them when they're no longer needed, as |
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portage's autounmask facility only adds to the file, it never cleans up |
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after itself. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Oxymoron: Reagan memoirs. |
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