Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

[Grant]

> > > I think you're right about that.  Can I configure eclean to wait a
> > > certain number of days since a package was removed before cleaning it?
> > >  Even if I only run it once per week, it could remove a package that
> > > was updated yesterday that I find out I need tomorrow.
> > >
> > > - Grant
> >
> >
> > -t, --time-limit=<time>    don't delete files modified since <time>
> > <time> is an amount of time: "1y" is "one year", "2w" is "two weeks",
etc.
> > Units are: y (years), m (months), w (weeks), d (days) and h (hours).
>
> I just realized that --time-limit doesn't look like it takes into
consideration when a package was removed from the system, only when it was
installed.  Does anyone know how eclean behaves as far as leaving packages
behind for a while in case they're needed?

This just got me today.  I recently updated google-chrome on one system,
'eclean packages' ran at some point, then chrome started acting up and I
couldn't go back to the previous version because eclean had wiped out the
package.  I don't think we can count on --time-limit to save us because it
can still wipe out all previous versions of a package.  What we need is a
way to keep at least one older version of each package.

- Grant