-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable >> through the @world hierarchy needs the package. No need to >> uninstall anything to do that level of investigation. >> revdep-rebuild -I is also useful, although more historically than >> now. >> > > This was essentially Michal Mol's suggestion, and I gave an > example where it would remove something important. > > >> Really, the proposal to 'fix --update' doesn't address really >> knowing what your system is running and why. Get to the root of >> that and the --update thing becomes the non-issue that many of us >> think it is. >> > > This would be a suggestion to travel back in time and document > something that I have no way of knowing now. > You could create your own overlay with "meta"-ebuilds, e. g. system-maintenance, customer1, customer2. Inside the ebuilds you define depends on the packages the customer wants. Doing so you could wipe everything except the "meta"-ebuilds from world. When a customer quits you can unmerge his or her "meta"-ebuild and depclean. If you add everything needed to the respective "meta"-ebuild, you'll always be on the safe side.
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