On 2021-02-25, hitachi303 <gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de> wrote: > I found it to be helpful to de-install as many programs as possible > before starting the update and the first emerge --sync. This reduces the > amount of conflicts by a considerable amount.
Yes, Definitely. If you can, uninstall anything "big" that you can live without temporarily: LibreOffice, Chromium, Qt, KDE, X11, Gnome, Cups, etc. Leave portage, sshd, Python, your init system, and GCC. > Stuff like libreoffice or thunderbird and so on and all of their > dependencies. Everything your system does not need to run but what > you need to be productive when you use your system. I use -av > --depclean for this.
