On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:32:01 -0700 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > 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 There were a couple of missing or out of date packages and I emerged 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. >
QUICK & DIRTY: emerge autounmask autounmask =app-portage/udept-0.5.99.0.2.95-r1 dep -w About the "dirty" part. Don't use "dep" for anything else. It's masked for a good reason - it's outdated and doesn't work with current portage versions. "-w" is the only feature I use and it works for me. Use at your own risk, make a backup of the world file, etc... -- Best regards, Daniel
