Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages
Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:02:58
Message-Id:	`1282091015.456104.46.camel@paska`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages by Enrico Weigelt

1	On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:53 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2	> Hi folks,
3	>
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5	> is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always
6	> to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ?
7
8	I always build binary packages when I emerge them (i.e.
9	FEATURES=buildpkg). That way if I uninstall something or it is upgraded
10	etc. I always have a copy).
11
12	-a