Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eclean ... won't
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 16:09:20
Message-Id: 1889869.ydzpHnPa7g@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] eclean ... won't by "Константин"
1 On Sunday 20 Nov 2016 17:07:03 Константин wrote:
2 > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 01:35:46PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 20 Nov 2016 16:05:29 Константин wrote:
4 > > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 09:42:40AM -0300, Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
5 > > > > Maybe you need to use 'eclean-dist -d'. But, for your safe, use
6 > > > > 'eclean-dist -dp' first.
7 > > >
8 > > > BTW what troubles can I get from 'eclean-dist -d' ? As far as I
9 > > > understand it, re-download needed tar.gz will be the worst isn't it?
10 > >
11 > > You'd think so, wouldn't you? But recently something has been going wrong
12 > > here such that 'eclean-pkg -d' removed every single package, leaving just
13 > > the directory structure. That was just after I'd spent six hours building
14 > > them
15 > Don't take me wrong it was not an objection but just a question. There
16 > are a lot of warnigns, but no explanations except 'users will not be
17 > protected in case they need to downgrade a package or re-install a
18 > previously removed package.' or similar.
19 >
20 > And thanks for example.
21 >
22 > #kstn
23
24 Thank you all for the pointers.
25
26 --
27 Regards,
28 Mick

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