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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:07:57
Message-Id: 200404122217.33781.stuart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers by Marius Mauch
1 On Monday 12 April 2004 21:58, Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > On 04/12/04 Stuart Herbert wrote:
3 > > Will Portage function without /var/cache/edb?
4 >
5 > Yes, but it will be _very_ slow.
6 >
7 > Marius
8
9 Then we shouldn't be putting this in /var/cache. It's for temporary files,
10 and can be emptied at any time without warning. This should really go
11 into /var/db.
12
13 Best regards,
14 Stu
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