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On Friday 23 February 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> It's also faster to rm -fr the directories before unmerging. You'd |
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> have to do it afterwards anyway, to remove the files that portage did |
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> not install (unless you run make mrproper) but doing it first speeds |
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> things up a lot as it avoids portage deleting each file individually. |
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Heh. I unmerged 4 old kernels packages a few days ago. The deleting |
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took 20 minutes (!) Not surprising when you consider there were >30,000 |
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files in each tree, and each one installed by portage has it's md5 sum |
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checked, then deleted. rm -rf would've taken 20 seconds... |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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