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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage+gentoolkit blockage
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:35:00
Message-Id: 20191028053431.GA27905@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage+gentoolkit blockage by Adam Carter
1 On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 03:36:00PM +1100, Adam Carter wrote
2 > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 3:23 PM Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >
4 > > I went 41 days without emerging (yeah, I know). Anyhow, emerge first
5 > > wants me to update portage, but I run into problems. Can I safely
6 > > unmerge gentoolkit and re-emerge it afterwards?
7 >
8 > Its not part of @system, so should be fine.
9
10 Thanks. I unmerged gentoolkit (0.4.6), updated portage, and
11 re-emerged gentoolkit (0.4.6). Wierd that it comes back with the same
12 version, but portage can't be updated when it's present.
13
14 > Whenever i'm not sure I just quickpkg first so get it back with tar
15 > if need be.
16
17 That prompted me to dig deeper. According to
18 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/System_set_%28Portage%29 you can gat a
19 listing of the system set with either of...
20
21 emerge --pretend @system
22
23 eix -c --system
24
25 --
26 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
27 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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