On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 09:10, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 06:31:53 +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > As for depclean, I have added an alias for depclean with --pretend > > that I use after world updates. Unless you have installed something > > with -1, most of the time that list is empty. And the output gives > > nice clean lists of what packages it wants to remove, with exact > > version strings and slots, so if I agree, I just do 'emerge -C <copied > > list>' and I'm good to go. > > Why not use --ask instead of --pretend? Then you don't have to copy > anything or re-run commands. "emerge -ca" is short enough to not need an > alias.
Mostly because, while I am not a prolific installer of temporary packages, I fairly often (compared to how often depclean wants to remove anything at all) have one or two packages in the list that I want to delay removing for a little while. Most common after a kernel upgrade where I still have not gotten around to reboot and confirm that the new version actually works. Copying the package list now and then seems less of a hassle to me than having to say no to --ask most of the time. Regards, Arve
