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From: hitachi303 <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best way forward?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:57:52
Message-Id: f3dde164-cd7a-4900-a3c1-994eb30238cd@konstantinhansen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best way forward? by Andreas Fink
1 Am 25.02.2021 um 17:13 schrieb Andreas Fink:
2 > On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:15:55 -0000 (UTC)
3 > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On 2021-02-25, hitachi303 <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
6 >>
7 >>> I found it to be helpful to de-install as many programs as possible
8 >>> before starting the update and the first emerge --sync. This reduces the
9 >>> amount of conflicts by a considerable amount.
10 >>
11 >> Yes, Definitely. If you can, uninstall anything "big" that you can
12 >> live without temporarily: LibreOffice, Chromium, Qt, KDE, X11, Gnome,
13 >> Cups, etc.
14 >>
15 >> Leave portage, sshd, Python, your init system, and GCC.
16 >>
17 >>> Stuff like libreoffice or thunderbird and so on and all of their
18 >>> dependencies. Everything your system does not need to run but what
19 >>> you need to be productive when you use your system. I use -av
20 >>> --depclean for this.
21 >>
22 >>
23 >
24 > Can't you, instead of uninstalling anything big, just start with the
25 > system set for the upgrade?
26 > emerge -auvDN @system
27 >
28 > Once the system set is updated you can assume of being in a rather sane
29 > state, where a world upgrade should just work(TM).
30 >
31
32 In theory this should work. My experience is that it does not. I have
33 had a couple of time when I couldn't do an emerge -auvDN @system because
34 of blocks but when trying to do a emerge -auvDN @world portage could
35 solve the issue with the blocks.

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