On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:51:27 +1100, Adam Carter wrote:
>
> > When i depclean i use -av --depclean --exclude gcc --exclude
> > gentoo-sources, since i like keep 2 gcc's around and I look after
> > sources manually.
>
> You can prevent depclean from removing gcc and kernel like this
>
> % cat /etc/portage/sets.conf
> [kernels]
> class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
> world-candidate = False
> files = /usr/src
>
> [gcc]
> class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
> world-candidate = False
> files = /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin
>
> Then add @kernels and @gcc to world_sets. I do this and now those
> packages have to be unmerged manually.
>

Nice. I feel like i should look into that an learn more about Gentoo, but
then;

alias depclean="emerge -av --depclean --exclude gcc --exclude
gentoo-sources"

And the motivation is gone.