Re: [gentoo-user] =|

Here is the original post, my email provider was kind enough to put it in my spam folder.  i've included the address info etc., please forgive my iffy email provider (iffy for features, otherwise solid).

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																																	From												                                                                                                            Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net <mailto:ALONZOTG@×××××××.net>>                                                    												                                                Su 29. Jul 14:41                                            																							Sender																																							gentoo-user+bounces-184518-mad.scientist.at.large=tutanota.com@l.g.o <mailto:gentoo-user+bounces-184518-mad.scientist.at.large=tutanota.com@l.g.o>																																				                                                                                																																				To													                                                        														                                                            gentoo-user@l.g.o <mailto:gentoo-user@l.g.o>                                                        																									                                                                                                                                    																									Bcc													                                                        														Me <mad.scientist.at.large@××××××××.com <mailto:mad.scientist.at.large@××××××××.com>>                                                        																									                                                                                        																							ReplyTo																																							gentoo-user@l.g.o <mailto:gentoo-user@l.g.o>																																				                                            																				[gentoo-user] =|																												Look, this system was installed when I went 64 bit back in 2010...

I put a great deal more work than I should into keeping it running.

I use Eclean-dist every time to purge dead packages. I've learned that
this is a very important step, often more important than the actual
update step...

I just went through my use flags and removed about a dozen of them that
have since been deprecated...

My package.mask and package.use are both very minimal. I run
emptytree-world on every significant compiler upgrade.

I'm running an emptytree world today because the system has been through
a lot of torture over the past week.

If there is anything "janky" or hacky in my setup it's for exactly one
reason: It was the first solution I found to a real actual problem I was
dealing with at the time after up to two weeks of desperately searching.
I take great offence to anyone who tells me that it's MY fault. =|



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29. Jul 2018 16:00 by rdalek1967@×××××.com <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>:


> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 16:41:43 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:
>>
>>> I take great offence to anyone who tells me that it's MY fault. =|
>> For someone that spews out such hateful and ungrateful diatribes, you
>> seem awfully sensitive to the mildest of criticism passing in the other
>> direction.
>>
>> BTW eclean-dist simply remove old tarballs from $DISTDIR, it has no
>> effect on the running system.
>>
>>
>
> Exactly.  When I read that about cleaning dist files, I was like, WHAT? 
> If a person has plenty of disk space, they could run their system,
> update it every day if they felt like it and it not affect a single
> thing, other than disk space.  Having the source tarballs around can
> actually be a good thing if one has a slower internet connection.  Heck,
> I forget to clean mine until my disk space starts getting low on that
> partition. Try as I might, I forget to clean them out and it doesn't
> break anything.  Running --depclean is a good idea.  That does clean out
> some cruft.  I don't think I've ever had it break anything but no need
> having it around to manage either. 
>
> I have to ask.  I'm not seeing the original posts from this one.  Is
> this that Alan, not the smart and intelligent Alan but the other Alan,
> that had that nifty script that did the stupidest stuff and then went on
> to blame Gentoo for what his script did?  I think, after a ton of
> patience, I blocked that guy.  That would explain why I'm not seeing the
> original posts. 
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)