sbshadow: regenerate phantom-dep hints with sbb-remote, not mkhint

sb-builder's helper now owns the phantom deps list and the sweep
(fix-current-now, mkhint -F's port). Still skipped on --no.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 113c169..5bf3ac3 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -30,18 +30,18 @@ slackrepo strips a dep from a package via a per-package **hintfile** (`<prgnam>.
 Pain point: a package with ~20 REQUIRES may pull in several phantom-dep dependents; hand-writing a
 hintfile per dependent each week is tedious and error-prone.
 
-**Solution does not live here.** Hintfiles are owned by the `mkhint` tool (`../mkhintfile/`), which
-already creates/backs up/reviews them. The phantom-dep auto-strip is implemented there, not in this
-setup script:
-- A phantom-dep list at `~/.config/mkhint/phantom-deps` (one dep per line, `#` comments).
-- `mkhint --new` auto-adds `DELREQUIRES` for any listed dep it sees in the `.info` REQUIRES.
-- `mkhint --fix-current` (`-F`) bulk-sweeps the whole repo after a weekly regen: every package whose
-  REQUIRES hits a phantom dep gets a hintfile with the right `DELREQUIRES` (created if absent, merged
-  in place if present).
-
-Weekly flow: regenerate repo with this script; `sbshadow` runs `mkhint -F` at the end.
+**Solution does not live here.** Hintfiles are owned by sb-builder's VM helper `sbb-remote`
+(`../sb-builder/remote/sbb-remote`), which creates, backs up (`.bak`) and reverts them:
+- The phantom-dep list is the helper's `phantom_deps_file`, `/etc/sb-builder/phantom-deps` (one dep
+  per line, `#` comments), edited from the sb-builder GUI (Hints, Phantom deps), which also suggests
+  REQUIRES names no package of the tree has.
+- `sbb-remote fix-current-now` (the GUI's `fix-current` job) bulk-sweeps the whole repo: every package
+  whose REQUIRES hits a phantom dep gets a hintfile with the right `DELREQUIRES` (created if absent,
+  merged in place if present).
+
+Weekly flow: regenerate repo with this script; `sbshadow` runs `sbb-remote fix-current-now` at the end.
 Do **not** add a hintfile generator to this script — it would create a second owner of HINT_DIR and
-fight mkhint's `.bak` handling.
+fight the helper's `.bak` handling.
 
 ## slackrepo config and publishing
 
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ Pipeline, in order:
    package under `personal/` or `pentesting/` is `git rm`'d (shadow); any upstream package missing
    from HEAD and no longer carried in an overlay is restored with `git checkout current -- cat/pkg`
    (unshadow). A package is identified by a `$pkg/$pkg.SlackBuild` file. Match by directory
-   basename only, not content. Then it runs `mkhint -F`, except on `--no`.
+   basename only, not content. Then it runs `sbb-remote fix-current-now`
+   (sb-builder's helper; the phantom list is its `phantom_deps_file`), except
+   on `--no`.
 
 `sbshadow` is also called by the `sbpull` bash function (`sbpull.bash`, sourced from root's `.bashrc` on the build VM) after a
 `git subtree pull`, so overlay changes are applied without regenerating the whole repo. It is the