On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 17:40:19 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Just be careful about uninstalling sets. For whatever reason portage > >> doesn't manage dependencies when you do this. > > > > Do you mean that depclean doesn't remove them? > > > > The opposite. If you uninstall a set, portage will remove everything > in the set even if something else that is installed still needs it. > Removing a package with --depclean doesn't have this problem.
That's worth bearing in mind. It sounds like it would be safer to emerge --deselect the set and then depclean instead. > There is no reason this couldn't be fixed - it is just something to > watch out for. > > Another option to consider is creating your own overlay with some > meta-packages in it. Then when you do a new install the first thing > you do is pull in that overlay and you get those meta-packages along > with whatever else you want to override. Come to think of it, I might > just go do that... That's a good idea, but creating, and modifying, sets is just so easy! -- Neil Bothwick Frog philosophy: Time's fun when you're having flies.
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