On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:15:55 -0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > > Can't you, instead of uninstalling anything big, just start with the system set for the upgrade? emerge -auvDN @system Once the system set is updated you can assume of being in a rather sane state, where a world upgrade should just work(TM).
