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Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> On Monday 12 April 2004 22:26, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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>>I don't understand you here: The cache files are temporary, they can be |
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>>removed at any time and will be regenerated when portage accesses the |
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>>ebuild, just the first run will be very slow (I could give you numbers |
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>>if I wouldn't run a world update atm). |
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>>Marius |
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> If you did this: |
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> rm -rf /var/cache/* |
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> on your machine right now, portage would continue to work 100%? There would |
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> be no loss of functionality at all? Just the performance loss? |
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Well, if you did that, you'd kill your world file, virtuals, etc. You'd want to 'rm -rf |
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/var/cache/edb/dep'. |
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