Re: [gentoo-user] Portage-utils reinitialization - do I need it?

[Mick]

On Friday 23 Dec 2011 11:07:39 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On 12/23/2011 03:50 AM, Mick wrote:
> > This came up today when I updated portage-utils:
> >
> > * Messages for package app-portage/portage-utils-0.8:
> >
> > * /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize has been installed for
> > convenience * If you wish for it to be automatically run at the end
> > of every --sync: *    # chmod +x
> > /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize
> >
> > I'm not really sure if I need to be running this script after I
> > resync:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh [ -x /usr/bin/q ] && /usr/bin/q -r ${PORTAGE_QUIET:+-q}
> >
> > which from the man page of q tells me that it will "reinitialize
> > ebuild cache".  Do I need this if I already use eix?  Doesn't eix
> > manage all portage databases?
>
> I believe q-reinitialize updates the cache used by the q* utils. If
> you don't use them for searching (using eix instead) then it's
> probably not important for you to add that.

Thanks for explaining this to me.  I occasionally use them, but not that 
often.
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Regards,
Mick