On 10/3/21 8:30 PM, coa...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi y'all new confused user regarding package management > > How do you guys manage and protect your packages? > Do you just put everything on world and end up with a huge world file? > Do you have basic system files on world and the rest you protect or omit? > Do you create new(personalised) files depending on category and somehow link > them in any of the above 3? > It's just emerging everything you are not sure you will keep with -1 seems > cumbersome to me especially if at some point I want to transfer to a new > device and want to copy my settings over ,select what to keep and discard the > rest,depcleaning with pretend all the time seems annoying on the long term as > well so there should be lots of different solutions from different people(at > least thats what I think) > > I just think this is one of the things its better I learn now rather than > later and forum or wiki info is too "on-point" on a specific situation so I > thought I'd ask the userbase > I rarely use -1; pretty much exclusively for the case where I just need to run something once right now and will not need it again. Otherwise, I just install it normally, which will add it to my world file, and it will be preserved during depcleans. If I later decide I no longer need this package, I can always remove it later.
My world file has 161 packages; I'm not sure what you consider "huge", but glancing through the list I don't see a lot of bloat -- I know what pretty much each of them does/provides to my system. As far as "system" packages, I just rely on my profile's @system to keep those. Things in @world are applications/resources that I installed for my particular usage. I'm not sure from your question exactly why you're using -1 frequently enough to find it cumbersome; if you clarified what you're doing it might be easier to clarify whether that is "normal" usage or there is a better way of doing things. cal
