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On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:15:55 -0000 (UTC) |
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Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2021-02-25, hitachi303 <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > I found it to be helpful to de-install as many programs as possible |
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> > before starting the update and the first emerge --sync. This reduces the |
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> > amount of conflicts by a considerable amount. |
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> Yes, Definitely. If you can, uninstall anything "big" that you can |
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> live without temporarily: LibreOffice, Chromium, Qt, KDE, X11, Gnome, |
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> Cups, etc. |
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> Leave portage, sshd, Python, your init system, and GCC. |
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> > Stuff like libreoffice or thunderbird and so on and all of their |
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> > dependencies. Everything your system does not need to run but what |
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> > you need to be productive when you use your system. I use -av |
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> > --depclean for this. |
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Can't you, instead of uninstalling anything big, just start with the |
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system set for the upgrade? |
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emerge -auvDN @system |
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Once the system set is updated you can assume of being in a rather sane |
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state, where a world upgrade should just work(TM). |
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