Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

[William Kenworthy]

On 4/10/21 11:30 am, coalml@××××.io wrote:
> Hi y'all new confused user regarding package management
>
> How do you guys manage and protect your packages?
> Do you just put everything on world and end up with a huge world file?
> Do you have basic system files on world and the rest you protect or omit?
> Do you create new(personalised) files depending on category and
> somehow link them in any of the above 3?
>
> It's just emerging everything you are not sure you will keep with -1
> seems cumbersome to me especially if at some point I want to transfer
> to a new device and want to copy my settings over ,select what to keep
> and discard the rest,depcleaning with pretend all the time seems
> annoying on the long term as well so there should be lots of different
> solutions from different people(at least thats what I think)
>
> I just think this is one of the things its better I learn now rather
> than later and forum or wiki info is too "on-point" on a specific
> situation so I thought I'd ask the userbase


Apps I am trying out or wont keep for long, install with -1

Apps I want, install without -1

Updates - always use -1 and after a successful update is complete run
emerge --depclean -p and make sure whats being removed is really correct
then remove the -p.

Occasionally go through "/var/lib/portage/world" and turf things you no
longer need or don't know the use of, then run emerge --depclean -p and
make sure whats being removed is really correct then remove the -p.

BillK