Jason Stubbs writes:
|
| Unfortunately, that is *too* correct. Unfortunate in that both
| --depclean and --update only consider USE flags defined in make.conf and
| package.use (and embedded in .tbz2s when using binaries). This means
| that if package "foo" depends on package "bar" due to USE flag "baz"
| being enabled at install time and "baz" is subsequently disabled, "bar"
| becomes an orphaned package as far as the graph goes - even though it is
| still required.
|
| What does this mean in terms of security? The "only install what you
| need" rule is twice as important. Until portage is a little smarter, I
| would consider a "healthy" system to be one where `emerge -uDNvp world`
| shows no differing USE flags and both `emerge -p --depclean` and
| `revdep-rebuild -p` show no packages.
|
eeek! depclean wants to remove portmap and screen and all this other
stuff I need. Ah, because it isnt in /var/lib/portage/world I
guess... it seems Ive overestimated emerge's work.
Ok, so just to get this _totally_ clear, I should:
* manally place package names I need in /var/lib/portage/world
* check my install with
emerge sync
emerge -uDNpv world
revdep-rebuild -p
glsa-check -l |& grep '\[N\]'
* update any packages listed by those last 3 commands
Maybe Im just too lazy, but there must be a set of 'best' commands
to update/check a system documented/written down somewhere? Hopefully
in a possibly automated way. If there isnt, then lets try and cobble
one together. :)
Ah, the simple days when I'd get a list of packages I wanted to keep,
remove them from an rpm -qa and then keep trying to remove every
package left until there was no change (and depend on dependancy
trees to keep stuff that I need). :)
cheers,
cam
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