In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with
--oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I
update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into
emerge without the benefit of --oneshot.
So today I started a cleanup project. I began by moving world to
world-bloated and running emerge --depclean -p just to see what would
happen. The answer is ... a loop!
There were a couple of missing or out of date packages and I emerged
them. But libusb has to be 10.6 to make some packages happy and 10.7
to satisfy others.
I have been down this route before. I don't feel like unmerging
either side of the mess, and even if I didn't want the packages, it is
way too much hassle to unmerge them one by one as the list of unhappy
packages grows.
So, what is the proper way to recreate a proper world file? If
depclean can finally run one of these days when gentoo gets back in
sync, is staring with an empty world file as good as anything else?
The idea of trying to make intelligent guesses about which packages
are truly top level, out of 3000+ packages, is not enticing.
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