On 4/10/21 11:30 am, coa...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi y'all new confused user regarding package management > > How do you guys manage and protect your packages? > Do you just put everything on world and end up with a huge world file? > Do you have basic system files on world and the rest you protect or omit? > Do you create new(personalised) files depending on category and > somehow link them in any of the above 3? > > It's just emerging everything you are not sure you will keep with -1 > seems cumbersome to me especially if at some point I want to transfer > to a new device and want to copy my settings over ,select what to keep > and discard the rest,depcleaning with pretend all the time seems > annoying on the long term as well so there should be lots of different > solutions from different people(at least thats what I think) > > I just think this is one of the things its better I learn now rather > than later and forum or wiki info is too "on-point" on a specific > situation so I thought I'd ask the userbase
Apps I am trying out or wont keep for long, install with -1 Apps I want, install without -1 Updates - always use -1 and after a successful update is complete run emerge --depclean -p and make sure whats being removed is really correct then remove the -p. Occasionally go through "/var/lib/portage/world" and turf things you no longer need or don't know the use of, then run emerge --depclean -p and make sure whats being removed is really correct then remove the -p. BillK
