My take on this issue is to use 'epm'. Which is incredibly useful.
I'm often doing something like this
epm -qaG | grep xxxxx to see what I need to delete. Often old
gentoo-sources.
then edit the command line epm -e `epm -qaG | grep xxxxx ` to kill
it all
epm runs portage, so paludis needs to know about portage repositories.
so then run
paludis --regenerate-installed-cache to fix it.
then run revdep-rebuild -p to see if anything needs to be re linked and
call paludis on those packages manually
Its /still/ much simpler than using paludis to delete things.
--john
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:55:01 -0500
"Tom Cooksey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paludis won't carry out any action until it has a correct resolution
available to it, or until you explicitly tell it to cheat to get a
resolution.
What that meant though is that I had to trawl through the paludis man
page to work out which command I needed to specify in order for it to
ignore the type of block I was facing. searching for "ignore" as in
ignore blocks didn't help. At the time it was fustrating, all I wanted
to do is download it. From a user-pain point of view, either printing
a hint to the user like "You only seem to want to fetch, try adding
--foo-bar" or simply always fetch would seem like better behaviour.
That would imply that Paludis knows a sane way of resolving it.
Unfortunately, because Gentoo blockers don't tell the package manager
anything, it doesn't, so the user has to work it out for each
individual situation.
I'm pretty sure there's something better, but that worked and I was
happy. Out of a matter of interest, what _should_ I have used?
--dl-blocks discard ?
In this one particular case, yes.
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