On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 9:10 AM Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more > > bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but > > managed differently. > > > > Should be less, since you already have portage installed but not > necessarily eselect-whatever. >
The symlinks are all associated with packages as well, which means that when you uninstall things that will get rid of the symlinks as well. This is really just a best practice all-around. I have a Gentoo system I've been maintaining for a while and I occasionally find orphaned stuff poking around because of special cases of things that weren't managed by the package manager, and so when things were obsoleted they stuck around. The news is needed precisely because the migration involves having the package manager install a bunch of stuff over files not owned by any package. That triggers a warning, but only because the files were in a less than ideal state to start. Things like this and the new user/group packages also reduce the complexity of dependency management because they just turn everything into a package dependency. Less special cases. -- Rich
