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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:06:13
Message-Id: CAN0CFw2NoN7rNk9oiODBukLwaGVt0QndZ3OEP6hZ_+4Ddh6xCQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure? by Dale
1 > > I think you're right about that. Can I configure eclean to wait a
2 > > certain number of days since a package was removed before cleaning it?
3 > > Even if I only run it once per week, it could remove a package that
4 > > was updated yesterday that I find out I need tomorrow.
5 > >
6 > > - Grant
7 >
8 >
9 > -t, --time-limit=<time> don't delete files modified since <time>
10 > <time> is an amount of time: "1y" is "one year", "2w" is "two weeks", etc.
11 > Units are: y (years), m (months), w (weeks), d (days) and h (hours).
12
13 I just realized that --time-limit doesn't look like it takes into
14 consideration when a package was removed from the system, only when it was
15 installed. Does anyone know how eclean behaves as far as leaving packages
16 behind for a while in case they're needed?
17
18 - Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure? Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure? Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>