Steven Oliver wrote:
John,
Why are you using epm? Paludis can do everything you mentioned and in
fewer steps.
I have not found it so.
As discussed recently, without having to put in extra flags, it wants
also remove dependencies.
It also wants to have the fully qualified syntax with the >= at the front.
I never did figure out how to get it to remove only one of a slotted pair.
I ended up removing both then reinstalling the one I wanted!
the difference is that epm does what I ask without comment.
paludis editorialises.
That pickyness is good for additions and updates but for deletions it
pisses me off mightily.
ymmv.
--john
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:51 AM, John Huttley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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