On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 07:21:01 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > It's like being a teenager again, the longer you leave tidying your > > room, the longer it takes when your mum makes you do it :) > > > > Don't want to harp on it, but I almost never have to clean my world > file, and when I do I don't need any tools at all to make it happen. > This is because the world file revolves around me and my true > requirements, and not an endless list of hints to try to get the > package manager to do what I want it to do.
We're talking about /etc/portage/package.* here. not @world. I too rarely need to touch world. > I think we need to get away from solutions that clutter up > configuration in the first place. I'm not under any illusions that > this will ever be perfect, but I do think we can do better. Agreed, but this is about managing the options we have now. Like it or not, we need to put extra entries in package.use and eix-test-obsolete is the best current way of removing them when they're no longer needed, as portage's autounmask facility only adds to the file, it never cleans up after itself. -- Neil Bothwick Oxymoron: Reagan memoirs.
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