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From: Spider <spider@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:26:17
Message-Id: 20040412232606.51a010f7.spider@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers by Stuart Herbert
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2 On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:17:30 +0100
3 Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o> wrote:
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5 > On Monday 12 April 2004 21:58, Marius Mauch wrote:
6 > > On 04/12/04 Stuart Herbert wrote:
7 > > > Will Portage function without /var/cache/edb?
8 > >
9 > > Yes, but it will be _very_ slow.
10 > >
11 > > Marius
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13 > Then we shouldn't be putting this in /var/cache. It's for temporary
14 > files, and can be emptied at any time without warning. This should
15 > really go into /var/db.
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18 even worse. the "world" file, and the configs are also stored in
19 /var/cache. "not good".
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31 Tortured users / Laughing in pain
32 See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com>