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On 04/12/04 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 |
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> > be removed at any time and will be regenerated when portage accesses |
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> > the ebuild, just the first run will be very slow (I could give you |
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> > numbers 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 |
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> would be no loss of functionality at all? Just the performance loss? |
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Ah, I misread your original reply. The cache files (which was the topic) |
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can stay there, I agree that the other files (world, virtuals) should be |
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moved. |
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Oh, portage should continue to work, although differently than you would |
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expect ;) |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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