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On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 06:31:53 +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote: |
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> As you can see from the two earlier replies, from cal and Dale, this |
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> depends on how you want to manage your system. If you do a lot of |
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> installing, putting -1 in your defaults might be the way to go, but |
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> personally I'm in cal's camp, I would much rather remember the -1 when |
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> I'm doing something ad hoc, and have any programs I want added to |
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> world without adding another flag to my emerge command. |
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I pretty much do the same. I sometimes need to install a package for a |
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short while, rather than a quick test, so I have a @temp set I can add |
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these to and clean it out regularly. |
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> As for depclean, I have added an alias for depclean with --pretend |
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> that I use after world updates. Unless you have installed something |
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> with -1, most of the time that list is empty. And the output gives |
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> nice clean lists of what packages it wants to remove, with exact |
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> version strings and slots, so if I agree, I just do 'emerge -C <copied |
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> list>' and I'm good to go. |
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Why not use --ask instead of --pretend? Then you don't have to copy |
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anything or re-run commands. "emerge -ca" is short enough to not need an |
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alias. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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