On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 22:35:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Cleanups: Sometimes when cleaning up you'll delete something you really > do need, and you forget why you put it in world. Maybe emerge world puts > it back, but more likely stuff just breaks. Keep a list of all removals > so if you find breakage you can add things back. The classic case is > libs you need for your own code - you probably don't have an ebuild for > that and therefore no deps for portage to use.
> Sets: You have a many-purpose machine so you might find sets useful, > mostly because you can't add comments to world. You can with sets. They > are just files in /etc/portage/sets/ that list packages. You add them to > the system with emerge @<set_name>. Here is one of mine: I combine these two ideas and have a set called dependencies that contains a commented list of packages that are needed by non-portage software. Then I just emerge -n @dependencies. The -n flag is useful when cleaning world, it adds the package to world without re-emerging it unnecessarily. -- Neil Bothwick Tact is for people who don't understand sarcasm.
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