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On Tuesday 04 Apr 2017 17:52:30 Dale wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Has anyone else noticed that running "eclean-pkg -d" removes all |
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> > packages, or nearly so? I've had it happen recently on a few amd64 |
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> > systems and an x86 system, and it's becoming annoying. Well, no, |
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> > actually it's long since become annoying. |
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> If it is removing to much, leave out the -d option. With -d, it only |
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> leaves the minimum needed to re-emerge the packages currently |
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> installed. It works the same way with -dist as well. From the man page: |
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> -d, --deep only keep the minimum for a reinstallation |
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> I think if you leave off the -d option it leaves anything that is still |
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> in the tree, may include overlays as well. |
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Yes, I've done that of course. The point is that it used to work with -d, |
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and now it doesn't. If you ask how I know it used to work, my answer is that |
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of course I don't, but at least it only removed a sensible-looking number of |
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packages. |
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The other day I was left with just six package files and the directory |
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structure. |
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I haven't noticed a problem with eclean-dist. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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