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On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:50:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Never blindly accept what depclean says and let it do it's thing. Study the |
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> output, the warning printed on the screen to do just that is there for a |
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> reason. |
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> Never blindly update protected config files with etc-update etc. Check each |
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> one individually and do it manually. |
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One habit I've developed to protect myself from making a mistake with |
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depclean is defining it as an alias in the shell's rc, like this: |
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alias depclean="sudo emerge -vac" |
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That way it's alway verbose and always asks before proceeding. |
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IME it's too easy to forget to use those arguments and if you're |
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doing more than one thing at a time disaster can strike pretty |
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quickly... |
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If only my interface to the time-space continuum could be unix-like... With vim keybindings, cron, and everything! |