n? What is the difference between systemctl preset-all
--preset-mode=enable-only and systemctl preset-all?
Sorry don't know. I don't remember doing anything like that for my
systemd systems, but that was quite a while ago ...
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Wol
computer.
(There are ways to back up the key, but to a first approximation, take
the disk out of the computer and it's cryptographically wiped.)
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Wol
t be a problem (and if Python 13
is now the default that's REALLY weird) is I don't have ~amd64 as
default ... (and my system is systemd/kde, but that also should be
irrelevant).
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Wol
On 11/05/2025 16:04, Eli Schwartz wrote:
On 5/11/25 7:54 AM, Wol wrote:
On 02/05/2025 18:07, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hello, Gentoo.
I've just been trying the update for python 3.13. It went well on my
new machine (well, after unmerging app-portage/unsymlink-lib, which was
debris from
acktrack was set to 100, and it used 100, which is
why it failed ... useful info if I'm right ... :-)
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Wol
nless the
system set it for me ...
So I guess I need to do the "safer" upgrade, but it gives me two lines
that look like comments, and says "use these to blah blah", How do I use
them? Where do I put them? I don't "do" python - this is double dutch to me.
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Wol
it the one that comes with the
package, and your local config won't get overwritten by upgrades.
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Wol
and access your /home - a completely different
kettle of fish.
Or of course, going back to disk space and "having just one disk", how
much would it cost to replace all those disks with a single, *larger*
disk. I think a 1TB SSD is about £100? Not that expensive.
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Wol
) because the system was quite
capable of powering running drives, but couldn't provide the necessary
boot-up surge to all the drives simultaneously.
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Wol
me that is an even
bigger risk factor ... the fact that emerge is written in Python should
be seen as very risky!
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Wol
esn't, well, then I suspect you'll find it way
easier to use a general purpose computer as a general purpose computer
than to turn a TV into one.
And that was my question. Does anyone know a way to get a WebOS (aka
linux) tv to share the usb over the network?
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Wol
isplay the pi screen. But that's more hassle than I want, as opposed to
just putting a samba server or similar as an app on the tv.
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Wol
;, and copy stuff FROM my laptop TO the USB, while it's
physically connected to the TV!
Especially if I've got 2 terabytes of hard drive physically attached to
the TV, I don't want to have to keep on disconnecting/reconnecting the
disk to copy stuff on to it.
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Wol
e ours, that DEMANDS a disk drive to hang off its
USB. I tried sticking a USB3 stick in, and it refused. Hang a bare
laptop HDD off it, and it's quite happy.
So I'm hoping a M2 in an enclosure will keep it happy ...
(Of course, every other TV I've ever had is perfectly happen with just a
USB stick!)
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Wol
or it would gum up the works and cause emerge havoc.
CPAN predates linux iirc, and doesn't play by linux rules...
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Wol
ctory structure) to SMR.
That way, if you store the block list in the directory, you just drop
data blocks, and if you keep track of which directory contents are
stored in which SMR block, you can simply recover the space by copying
the directory(ies) to a new block.
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Wol
s when all you've got is 7-bit
Ascii.
Bear in mind as far as linux is concerned, a file name is a string of
bytes ending in null, with a couple of forbidden characters eg "/". So
if your shell or whatever doesn't know how to display the bytes, that's
what it does.
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Wol
those to have
problems if you DID have a partition table. It's linux that's unusual in
being happy with a partition table on removable media.
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Wol
can be backed up, and they'll
not be on the internet to be mined or broken into or whatever for long.
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Wol
hey can't find it.
(I'm cursing Plasma 6, but that's not Wayland's fault. afaict it's
having problems importing/updating the old Plasma 5 settings with the
result it resets itself every time I log in :-(
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Wol
er - don't
check the ram is in the right slots. That's one shop I certainly won't
visit again.
(The only reason I asked a shop to fix it was because I didn't have an
old chip so couldn't boot the board to upgrade the bios to work with the
chip I had ...)
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Wol
27;ll leave you to dig deeper, but let us know how it goes ... :-)
Just about that /sys thing, that might be if you're trying to put an
already-running program into a cgroup. If you're using cgexec to start a
program, it should do all that for you.
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Wol
a keyboard (and no mouse), it still disables the
trackpad so you're down a mousehole ...
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Wol
small jobs in quickly.
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Wol
On 23/08/2024 19:38, Dale wrote:
Any ideas on how to limit Firefox memory usage? Wouldn't mind if I
could use it for other programs too.
cgroups? Dunno how they work, but it's something they're supposed to do ...
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Wol
isk.
I - allegedly - know about raid :-) , so if you give me a bit more info
I might be able to help. Or I might not ...
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Wol
the module
system fails the system still boots, or if only sometimes need them,
modules aren't loaded until necessary to save ram.
Knowing how to boot a modular kernel is a sensible skill to have. And
booting the modular way (even if you don't actually have any modules) is
an easy and sensible thing to do.
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Wol
ng to build the correct firmware into the kernel,
gave up and went down the module route (no I don't like having drivers
for base hardware as modules), and the relief when it "just worked".
So think about that ...
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Wol
>> means "end of parallel music expressions" (never mind what that
means :-)
But it does make sense to outdent after >> because it's an "end of". It
does NOT make sense to outdent after "get quieter". So what does it do?
Of course.
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Wol
ot;indentation", unless it's very
non-obvious - everything there is set to "off"!).
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Wol
On 07/08/2024 14:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hello, Wol.
On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 23:08:42 +0100, Wol wrote:
On 06/08/2024 19:31, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
So, is it possible in Wayland to record a configuration of windows,
their sizes and positions, then restore these on starting a program
again
On 06/08/2024 22:40, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
That's indeed the case, XDG and freedesktop and the X consortium being
behind Wayland certainly helped adoption.
Well, Wayland is - effectively - X13.
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Wol
on't actually know what's going on.
In Wayland, you can't steal focus. But as a side effect, it's Wayland
that controls the window, not the application. So Wayland is more
secure, but that comes with unavoidable side effects that you don't like...
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Wol
it. I think that was actually Dale's suggestion - anything I
emerge will get cleaned away by my next depclean unless I actively force
it into the world file.
But a load of stuff just wouldn't --update or emerge as a result ...
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Wol
only sending enough
resolution to get the job done. If they do that for millions of users,
it would have to save them some amount of money. I'd think anyway.
Youtube doesn't (yet) have a monopoly on streaming, fortunately ...
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Wol
e, as far as I can tell, I have no control over the download
resolution! Why would I want to download a video in Full HD, when I only
have an HD Ready screen, and it's over a metered connection! So
basically, I'm paying for resolution I can't see!
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Wol
ux, so if
there's an argument about who needs to change, perl simply says "I was
here first, you have to do it *my* way".
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Wol
n't support vFAT
they'll get hammered for anti-trust.
More and more everything is turning into "System on a chip", and that
includes the bios! It has just enough of a driver now to read everything
it needs from the attached storage, and that's your modern UEFI.
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Wol
once I factor in the cost of working out how to use diff it's not worth
it. It's doubly not worth it because I'll have forgotten all that hard
work next time I need it!
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Wol
er updates the standard file, and the standard file reads the local
configuration to update it with the local settings.
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Wol
point electrons can just "magically" quantum jump between tracks.
Obviously, this is quite serious before if your ones and noughts consist
of just a few electrons, and they can randomly jump about, you're going
to get bit errors left right and centre.
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Wol
ssage.
Seriously? Some complete stranger to the list, telling off a regular for
posting something weird?
I've got news for you, there are quite a few weirdos on the list, but it
adds spice!
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Wol
em and used
in UEFI boot mode [which you don't need when booting in
Legacy/BIOS mode.]
Note that, for new installs, I generally say always create a decent
sized partition for UEFI, so if you want to change you can, although it
sounds like in your case it probably doesn't matter :-)
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Wol
t struck, I've rebooted, started Network
Manager (which I thought I'd uninstalled) and wonder of wonders I have
internet!
But some documentation would certainly be appreciated.
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Wol
per!
Nobody should trust anybody else more than they have need to - and
especially governments should not trust 3rd-party nationals! It's not
worth it.
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Wol
spaces, I would typically have a ramdisk of
maybe 128GB.
As previously mentioned, it only uses what space it needs, so I guess
with 32GB of real RAM, with most stuff my system wouldn't touch swap
even with huge ramdisks being declared.
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Wol
't know what exactly is
wrong, or what to try ...
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Wol
As the error says, you generally need to do a full update before you can
depclean.
What error(s) do you get when trying to update firefox or thunderbird?
What happens if you try to update @world?
Both firefox and thunder
buy a dozen USB flash drives.
And then, if USB isn't the default boot media, he might as well sort out
UEFI boot, and multi-boot that way.
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Wol
cognising
my weird disk stack!).
If you can find, and understand!, that advanced options, I think you'll
find you can do what you want.
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Wol
king again. At least
it was only the boot that was trashed.
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Wol
o start deleting backups
assuming I'm actually using half my disk (and with terabyte disks, both
the amount of change, and the amount of disk used, is likely to be a lot
less than those figures).
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Wol
tem as part of the backup, you can then just mount that
snapshot to get a complete filesystem image. Full backups for the price
of incremental.
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Wol
ed to understand how DNS, DHCP, and all this name
allocation stuff works, and it's pretty logical. It just takes quite a
bit getting your head round it.
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Wol
rce a re-emerge of the modules.
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Wol
eems guaranteed to cause
problems".
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Wol
terest". A pretty cheap trade-off, imho.
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Wol
n accident.
But I think cryptographers have abandoned crackable ciphers now - if
it's crackable then it's easily crackable. And all other ciphers simply
rely on the asymmetric effort taken to create a key or solve a key.
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Wol
n
parallel would naturally tail off.
At the end of the day, if the computer takes an extra 20% time, I'm not
bothered. If I'm sat at the computer 20% time extra because the system
isn't responding because emerge has bogged it down, then I do care. And
when I'm building things like webkit-gtk, llvm, LO, FF and TB, they do
hammer my system. If they're running in parallel, my system would be
near unusable.
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Wol
ns overlap, make sure you start from whichever end won't
overwrite the source, otherwise start at whichever end you like".
Barring screw-ups (a very unsafe assumption :-), I'm pretty certain you
don't even need a backup!
I suspect the man-page even confirms this behaviour.
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Wol
oviding support services on top (plus an admittedly large chunk of
value-add, if you think it's value ...)
It goes Sid -> testing -> stable -> Ubuntu -> (X/K/L...)ubuntu
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Wol
was more reliable. Hey ho.
There's all sorts of tricks, some work for some people, others work for
others.
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Wol
So, I guess, if you don't exclude these hogs from @world then you can
just find out if they are going to be emerged (and emerge them first if
you want), or if you do exclude them from @world, you can emerge them
(to some extent at least) on your own timescale.
Cheers,
Wol
that it said that was a bad idea and not guaranteed to
work. Certainly on my system, it just hung with, iirc, no logs whatsoever.
Once I enabled sddm.service, it worked fine ...
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Wol
pdate @system
not @world. If @system is up-to-date, it's not major if you break other
stuff.
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Wol
ard reader, they're pretty ancient.
Good to know it all works, but if you're sticking a new card in an old
reader, they may not be compatible.
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Wol
just like me ...
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Wol
ons appears to have done
the trick!
Thanks all!
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Wol
ut powerful footguns willy nilly.
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Wol
fer a denial-of-service
attack that tried to fill memory, that amount of swap would knacker my
system for a LONG time.
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Wol
On 16/04/2023 22:30, Mitch D. wrote:
Wol, can you elaborate on why you think Grub is deprecated on EFI systems?
Because EFI is a boot manager? Why chain-load boot managers?
Cheers,
Wol
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 15:17 hitachi303 <mailto:gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de>> wrote:
Am
/boot/EFI, you have
to update the EFI directory.
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Wol
, seeing as grub is deprecated with EFI, learn how to boot using EFI.
Don't worry, I haven't really learned either :-) I just keep a Slack
live-CD handy ...
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Wol
ovides me a nice progress counter, and I only look at the contents of
the console if that's not enough.
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Wol
My
system (KDE) throws a pop-up up that says "what do you want to do?".
That, I think, is the default with which I am quite happy.
I'd rather (for *KNOWN* usb-sticks) put an entry in fstab.
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Wol
e point the customer could use the savings and replace
a failed chip. Win win ...
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Wol
ce
these selections rather than some optional tool though.
what are they going to do about "eselect kernel set ..." then?
It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't watch
out, without something deciding to install a non-existent kernel and
deleting the live one :-)
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Wol
LWN tipped off. If they run an article, we might get a new upstream.
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Wol
On 28/01/2023 06:20, Dale wrote:
Michał Górny wrote:
# Michał Górny (2023-01-27)
# GKrellM and a variety of plugins. It's unmaintained for some time.
# Upstream homepage is gone, and the whole sui
g all those libs in an @set? Then you
could just do eg "emerge --update @libraries; emerge --update @world".
Or maybe what I do if I'm expecting trouble - "emerge --update @system;
emerge --update @world". I guess those libraries are in @system?
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Wol
.
I don't know anything about clang ... it must be the default ...
I thought part of Firefox/Thunderbird was written in Rust, so I assumed
it was built with llvm as a matter of course.
I'll just wait for it to sort itself out.
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Wol
ble a couple of the HOTPLUG options and then it showed up.
But / should (a) tell you where it is, and (b) tell you what to enable
to make it appear.
That's what Peter meant when he said / will always find it. / won't make
it appear, it tells *you* how to make it appear.
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Wol
://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/What_is_RAID_and_why_should_you_want_it%3F
(Disclaimer - I either wrote or heavily edited it.)
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Wol
easing disk capacities, raid-5 is said to be obsolete.
Because if another drive fails during rebuild, you are officially screwed.
Fun, innit?
They've always said that. Just make sure you don't have multiple drives
from the same batch, then they're less likely statistically to fail at
the same time. I'm running raid-5 over 3TB partitions ...
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Wol
eggs, but that massively reduces the need for network
traffic.
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Wol
gs about switches and lowest common denominator and
messing up your speeds ...
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Wol
tects against a drive
failure, integrity protects against disk corruption. They're all
unlikely events, but I've got loads of disk space, a powerful system,
and I don't stress it, so I've got power to spare for it.
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Wol
join the disks, lvm
to partition them, and ext to manage the directories and files.
I do the latter ...
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Wol
washing
machine) for our multi-user mini that served the entire company with
256KB of ram ...
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Wol
That was about ten years before you ...
:-)
Wol
ings I've ever seen. I wish I
could find a few more of them, as spares if nothing else.
Yup, that's my experience of USB, too. It just isn't reliable. And
anything that works and you like, they discontinue!
Cheers,
Wol
On 27/11/2022 15:49, Mike Civil wrote:
On 27/11/2022 14:50, Wol wrote:
Postfix afaik just has one humungous config file, so when your distro
updates the config, all your local changes are trashed :-(
I don't want to faff about with special copies, backups, origs etc.
Everything should
untouched.
Postfix afaik just has one humungous config file, so when your distro
updates the config, all your local changes are trashed :-(
I don't want to faff about with special copies, backups, origs etc.
Everything should "just work (tm)".
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Wol
on SUSE, that day can't
come soon enough.
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Wol
bviously.
I'm trying to do that. I understood that video cards didn't support it,
so I have two video cards, but I haven't managed to get both of them
working together, so far ... (couldn't even get the computer to boot
properly last I tried ...)
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Wol
ew kernels all the time, is that finding the
time to actually copy the old config, make, make modules, make install,
fix grub, sort out problems, reboot, is actually quite hard.
It's not just a few minutes ...
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Wol
e implementation leaves a lot
to be desired and, as always, the reason is not enough manpower.
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Wol
llocated, is the bad block is now
allocated to two different inodes?
If a read fails, you SHOULD NOT do anything. If a write fails, you move
the block and mark the failed block as bad. But seeing as you've moved
the block, the bad block is no longer allocated to any file ...
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Wol
t the dance you want to do
it will make it a lot easier ...
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Wol
ewire is intended to satisfy both.
So the intent was clearly to install pipewire underneath a working
pulseaudio, and just move applications across as and when.
Cheers,
Wol
On 30/09/2022 20:46, Matt Connell wrote:
On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 20:36 +0100, Wol wrote:
I've noticed that --depclean hardly seems to be cleaning anything out
now. Despite regular emerge updates. I do an emerge update world every
week, followed immediately by a depclean, but it's probab
packages in the last month? Despite updating loads? Is
that normal?
(Although I've not had any problems with depclean that a --bdeps didn't
resolve)
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Wol
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