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On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with |
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> --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I |
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> update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into |
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> emerge without the benefit of --oneshot. |
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> So today I started a cleanup project. I began by moving world to |
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> world-bloated and running emerge --depclean -p just to see what would |
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> happen. The answer is ... a loop! |
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> There were a couple of missing or out of date packages and I emerged |
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> them. But libusb has to be 10.6 to make some packages happy and 10.7 |
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> to satisfy others. |
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> I have been down this route before. I don't feel like unmerging |
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> either side of the mess, and even if I didn't want the packages, it is |
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> way too much hassle to unmerge them one by one as the list of unhappy |
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> packages grows. |
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> So, what is the proper way to recreate a proper world file? If |
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> depclean can finally run one of these days when gentoo gets back in |
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> sync, is staring with an empty world file as good as anything else? |
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> The idea of trying to make intelligent guesses about which packages |
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> are truly top level, out of 3000+ packages, is not enticing. |
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nano -w world |
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remove everything you did not install. |
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Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and world |
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will not be bloated at all. |
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