[gentoo-user] Re: Question about difference between emerge --update world and emerge vigra

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier <at> googlemail.com> writes:


> > to 'clean' the world file, in addition to what you have stated above?


> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172611

> Daniel


Hello Daniel,

What you have told me looks interesting. However, for now, I'm going
to clean up the critical systems with a more brute force approach,
as Neil has suggested. I cannot afford to wack these systems nor
have them reinstalling tons of software......

However, I am going to get workstation a non-critical workstation, 
polluted the world file and try the python scripts a few times, to 
develop an opinion or hack on it a bit.

udept seems like a good idea, it's ashame it has been orphaned. I'm 
looking for a more stable (supported) solution for the long term.
udept does not seem to offer that, unless somebody picks it up
to maintain it. Who knows maybe one of the devs is working on a
better, long term solution.

Surely many folks would benefit from a formal, systematic approach
to cleaning the world file?  I know every now and then, when a gentoo
workstation gives me fits, I just emerge and unemerge things until
it's happy (while multitasking too much). Often this leads to
a polluted world file....... because I do not follow closely to
the process details (distracted) during the repair-episode.

Thanks for the input.


James