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whitt
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 Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:08 pm Post subject: Proper use of depclean - help? |
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Hi - I ask a lot of dumb questions here, and I'm sure this will go on the growing pile...
I'm trying to better maintain my system, and am running updates every couple months now. I've fixed a handful of things, and am trying to be a better maintainer of my PC - I've gotten very sloppy over the years.
Anyway, I ran `emerge --depclean` this morning, and see it's trying to do some not great things. But rather than blame the tool, I'd like to know what I'm doing incorrectly.
For example, --depclean wants to remove grub. I boot with grub (or is it grub2 now?). I feel like that'd be a bad idea. It also wants to remove zen-sources 6.6.3 (I have installed 6.6.10 but no compiled / switched yet)... I checked eselect, and it shows 6.6.3 is currently selected... I will change that when I compile and boot 6.6.10, but for now I'd expect depclean to be happy leaving 6.6.3 alone...
I suspect there is a basic premise of gentoo system maintenance I'm not getting. So let's focus on grub and zen-sources for now - what am I doing wrong, or not doing right?
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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whitt,
First run
If there are things there that you want to keep permanently, | Code: | | emerge --no-replace |
them
For thing that you want to keep temporally, --exclude them.
Depclean keeps what it considers are the 'best' versions and removes the others, if you let it.
I like ta manage gcc and gentoo-sources by hand so I always | Code: | | --exclude="gcc gentoo-sources" |
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CaptainBlood
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| Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | I like ta manage gcc and gentoo-sources by hand so I always | Code: | | --exclude="gcc gentoo-sources" |
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Same here.
--exclude requirement avoided by slotted emerge: | Code: | emerge sys-devel/gcc:12
emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:6.7.9 |
Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.
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whitt
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| Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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I love these forums - NeddySeagoon, you've been answering my questions about Gentoo for 20 years... Thanks a lot!
All set - appreciate the help |
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