Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

2017-05-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 05/13/2017 06:05 PM, lee wrote: > It worked --- now some time when I do upgrade the kernel, I somehow need > to remove these sources from the world list, I guess ... > That's easy: `emerge --deselect sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.4.52` undoes my previous suggestion. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

2017-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 May 2017 02:05:58 +0100, lee wrote: > > It will only remove things that it deems not needed. Usually these are > > packages that have just been upgraded. > > Yes, the sources wouldn't be needed if I had upgraded the kernel. Still > one might expect it to figure out which kernel is

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

2017-05-13 Thread lee
Daniel Frey writes: > On 04/29/2017 06:23 PM, lee wrote: >> Daniel Frey writes: >>> Do a --depclean and that will resolve itself. >> >> Last time I tried that, it wanted to remove the source of the kernel I'm >> using, along with other things. It would

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

2017-04-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/29/2017 06:23 PM, lee wrote: > Daniel Frey writes: >> Do a --depclean and that will resolve itself. > > Last time I tried that, it wanted to remove the source of the kernel I'm > using, along with other things. It would have made sense if I had > upgraded the kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

2017-04-29 Thread lee
Daniel Frey writes: > On 04/29/2017 01:38 PM, lee wrote: >> !!! existing preserved libs: > package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27 >> * - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so >> * used by >> /usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.25.1/libopcodes-2.25.1.so >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

2017-04-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/29/2017 10:28 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I found on several systems that using "--backtrack=100" actually resolved the > latest blockers with perl. > I find doing `emerge --oneshot --nodeps perl` then `perl-cleaner --all` was faster. Portage would chug for over five minutes on some of

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

2017-04-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/29/2017 01:38 PM, lee wrote: > !!! existing preserved libs: package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27 > * - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so > * used by > /usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.25.1/libopcodes-2.25.1.so > (sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1) > Use emerge @preserved-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

2017-04-29 Thread lee
Alan Mackenzie writes: > For a start, I could barely read parts of it, which were displayed in > dark blue text on a black background. Yes, that always annoys me, too. You need to copy it from the terminal and paste it into emacs, and then it's still not exactly readable or even

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

2017-04-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On April 29, 2017 4:39:13 PM GMT+02:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >Hello, Gentoo. > >Now able to boot into my new hardware, one of the first things I did >was > ># emerge --sync > >. Fine. The next thing I tried was > ># emerge -auND @world > >, which is probably recommended in

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

2017-04-29 Thread Mick
On Saturday 29 Apr 2017 14:39:13 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > Now able to boot into my new hardware, one of the first things I did was > > # emerge --sync > > . Fine. The next thing I tried was > > # emerge -auND @world > > , which is probably recommended in the