Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

[Brandon Mintern]

My cleanup routine pretty much involves running vim on
/var/lib/portage/world and going down the list. If I see something I
definitely don't need, I remove that line. If I see something that I
don't remember what it was, in another terminal (just an ALT-TAB away)
I run "esearch package-name". After I'm done going through the file, I
run "emerge -a --depclean" followed by "revdep-rebuild".

Call me old school, but that method never takes me more than a few
minutes to do. I am also someone in the vim camp. It fires up quickly
and is very efficient for moving around files, which is what editing
configuration files is all about. Not to mention that I use it for all
of my programming as well (except that I'm just now starting to learn
SLIME for Lisp, pretty much a necessity).

The other thing I do is to run "emerge --sync" and "emerge -uDNav"
once a week (followed by "emerge --depclean" and "revdep-rebuild"). I
check the USE flags of the updated/newly-installed packages to make
sure they are what I want, using "euse -E", "euse -D", or editing
/etc/portage/package.use appropriately.

That's my input,
Brandon
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