On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 06:31:53 +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote:

> As you can see from the two earlier replies, from cal and Dale, this
> depends on how you want to manage your system. If you do a lot of
> installing, putting -1 in your defaults might be the way to go, but
> personally I'm in cal's camp, I would much rather remember the -1 when
> I'm doing something ad hoc, and have any programs I want added to
> world without adding another flag to my emerge command.

I pretty much do the same. I sometimes need to install a package for a
short while, rather than a quick test, so I have a @temp set I can add
these to and clean it out regularly.
> 
> 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.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Beware of the opinion of someone without any facts.

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