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On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 05:43:27 +0100, Wols Lists wrote: |
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> > Yes, it would be. The first way, portage just scans the list of files |
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> > and tries to delete what isn't there; the second way it actually has |
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> > to delete real files. |
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> I doubt that's the problem. After all, rm has to delete the files too. |
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> I guess portage scans the files and looks up whether it can delete them |
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> or not. If you've deleted them already, that step no longer happens ... |
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That's what I thought, it has to check whether each file has been |
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modified before deleting it, then it deletes that one file. rm just |
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chucks the whole lot in the bin. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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