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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 23:44:15
Message-Id: 2604287.mvXUDI8C0e@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:11:42 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > When I checked it in the past
4 >
5 > rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version
6 > emerge -C gentoo-sources-version
7 >
8 > was significantly faster than
9 >
10 > emerge -C gentoo-sources-version
11 > rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version
12
13 Yes, it would be. The first way, portage just scans the list of files and tries
14 to delete what isn't there; the second way it actually has to delete real
15 files.
16
17 --
18 Regards,
19 Peter.

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