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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Neil Bothwick<neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:42:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> I have NEVER asked portage to keep a copy of EVERYTHING online. |
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> Yet it does. |
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>> I |
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>> think it's a sinthat portage decides to remove files from MY machine, |
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>> files that I'm currently using, files that I require. |
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> It doesn't. It may remove files from the portage tree, but those are |
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> not in use except when emerging. The ebuilds for your installed packages |
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> are kept in /var/db/pkg. |
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It does. |
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QUESTION: Was the file /usr/portage/distfiles/xorg-server-1.1.1.tar.bz |
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on my system? |
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ANSWER: Yes |
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QUESTION: After eix-sync or building xorg-server-1.5 is the file |
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/usr/portage/distfiles/xorg-server-1.1.1.tar.bz still on my system? |
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ANSWER: No. |
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It does remove files. I don't know when, but they are gone. |
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Can I go find these files somewhere? Almost certainly - in backups, in |
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the attic, on other machines - somewhere. |
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Should I be spending my time this way? My thought is no, but then |
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again, that's just me. Apparently portage devs disagree and if I want |
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to run this distro I guess it's their way or the highway. (Doesn't |
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rhyme so well from the user's point of view, but then again, the guy |
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getting poked in the eye by the stick isn't supposed to think it feels |
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good, is he?) |
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Good night. I'll come back in a few days and see if this feels any |
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better, assuming I still have a key to the house. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |