On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:35:10 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: > > I take a different approach, I have a set called temp in my > > world_sets. If I want to try something out, I "echo cat/pkg > > >>/etc/portage/sets/temp" then I can try it and keep it updated > > >>during the trial and not have to > > worry about its deps. All I need to do is look at the temp file from > > time to time and remove anything I no longer want, then it gets > > depcleaned along with its dependencies. > > That's a good approach. But, what I'm looking for could be a general > purpose tool for *all* of the gentoo community to parse and identify > packages that are not being updated or at lease fall into the orphan > category. One common case is those packages installed (-1). I'd venture > to guess from time to time that most gentoo users have packages > installed that are not dependencies for any other packages. Often is it > by accident or extreme manual cleansing events (like the recent ncurses > episode) that folks stumble across these orphaned packages. I just > think a tool or option in an existing tool does/should cover that > scenario. It is a routine need, imho.
That's exactly what depclean is for, to find any packages that are not dependencies of the installed sets. > That said are there any make.conf mods need to use sets like this, > or just create the dir and and use your command line string? That's all you do. Any file in /etc/portage/sets containing a list of atoms is taken to be a set definition. > I might not use it permanently the way you do, but I can see putting > a collection of (-1) packages into a set, for organizational structure. > With clustering now infecting my gentoo world, I'll need a master by > architecture, logically organized collection of "sets" to cover the > myriad of node set-ups. Each system will most likely have a different > installation of these sets. And the cluster is now moving to a > multi-arch setup with aarch64. I use sets like that too. I have one called base that I installed at the chroot stage of installation, containing various essential and useful packages - such as portage-utils, conf-update and eix. Then sets called desktop and laptop - sets can contain other sets so when installing my new laptop I only have to "emerge -u @laptop". -- Neil Bothwick Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery :)
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