On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 10:33:58 +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > Why not use --ask instead of --pretend? Then you don't have to copy > > anything or re-run commands. "emerge -ca" is short enough to not need > > an alias. > > Mostly because, while I am not a prolific installer of temporary > packages, I fairly often (compared to how often depclean wants to > remove anything at all) have one or two packages in the list that I > want to delay removing for a little while. Most common after a kernel > upgrade where I still have not gotten around to reboot and confirm > that the new version actually works. Copying the package list now and > then seems less of a hassle to me than having to say no to --ask most > of the time.
I picked up this tip some years ago to avoid depcleaning kernel sources. % cat /etc/portage/sets.conf [kernels] class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet world-candidate = False files = /usr/src and emerge -n @kernels I also have this in the file to allow multiple GCC versions. [gcc] class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet world-candidate = False files = /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin -- Neil Bothwick With free advice you often get what you pay for.
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