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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:27:02
Message-Id: 20040412232637.1d3ba123@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers by Stuart Herbert
1 On 04/12/04 Stuart Herbert wrote:
2
3 > On Monday 12 April 2004 21:58, Marius Mauch wrote:
4 > > On 04/12/04 Stuart Herbert wrote:
5 > > > Will Portage function without /var/cache/edb?
6 > >
7 > > Yes, but it will be _very_ slow.
8 > >
9 > > Marius
10 >
11 > Then we shouldn't be putting this in /var/cache. It's for temporary
12 > files, and can be emptied at any time without warning. This should
13 > really go into /var/db.
14
15 I don't understand you here: The cache files are temporary, they can be
16 removed at any time and will be regenerated when portage accesses the
17 ebuild, just the first run will be very slow (I could give you numbers
18 if I wouldn't run a world update atm).
19
20 Marius
21
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>