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Hey there, |
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> IMO, if you only want to update a system once or twice a year, Gentoo |
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> is not a good choice |
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What really helps is not to pollute your world file with crap you |
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installed just for fun or you are not using anymore. A while ago I |
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started organizing my configuration in various sets in |
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`/usr/portage/sets/$set_name`. And only the `real` system packages I |
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need to get my system running are allowed into the world file. And I |
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make heavy use of the -1 flag to keep portage from writing everything |
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into world. |
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I don't know what the current policy on sets is, but if you make use of |
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it you can easily reinstall whole subsets of your system without having |
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to spend too much time. |
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Then, if you run a world-update and you run into trouble you have the |
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possibility to "bisect" your problem and either update certain sets |
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seperatly or even unmerge whole sets (of course you still maintain |
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already existing packages to reduce installation time). |
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This puts me in the position to upgrade only once in a while. Avoiding |
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dependency hell software (e.g. KDE) also helps a lot. |
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And if you want to to a complete reinstall. Just unmerge your additional |
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sets. Update @world (which has only the most nessecary bare bone system |
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packages). There you go. A freshly installed Gentoo with your flavour. |
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Cheers, |
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Andrej |
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