Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses.
By "snapshot" (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the system regenerate a "snapshot" of where the system is today. So that if I were to a "merge --newuse world", only the active packages in use as of today would be rebuilt. Or I just totally lost somewhere out in left field?
Dave Nebinger wrote:
To 'clean' your /usr/portage directory you could try removing the whole
thing then drop a snapshot in place.
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