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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eclean ... won't
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 07:26:38
Message-Id: 2188249.UA3kVFhHVt@andromeda
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] eclean ... won't by "Константин"
1 On Sunday, November 20, 2016 05:07:03 PM 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 One example where this can be annoying is with packages that have fetch-
23 restriction enabled. Or, even worse, where certain versions are no longer
24 available for download.
25
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27 Joost

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