u/ElvinLundCondor

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Managing masked packages

I have some installed packages that only have masked versions, for example vagrant. After it is installed I forget about it until the day I eventually get warning installed package doesn’t exist in the tree.

So my process is to 1. deselect the package, 2. run a depclean (removes 85 packages) 3. remove the package.accept for vagrant 4. autoaccept install vagrant (installs 85 packages)

This seems like a clean way to do it but not very efficient. Is there a better way to just update a masked package along with all its pinned masked dependencies? Going through the package.accept line by line seems not the way to go.

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u/ElvinLundCondor — 15 days ago