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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:21:25
Message-Id: 200801051111.35767.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage by Renat Golubchyk
1 On Saturday 05 January 2008, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
2 > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:01:44 -0800 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent eclean from removing
4 > > a distfile for an installed package. Seems like that should be
5 > > default behavior.
6 >
7 > From the eclean manpage:
8 >
9 > If you use the --destructive option, eclean will only protect files
10 > corresponding to some currently installed package (taking their
11 > exact version into account).
12
13 He'd be better off using /etc/eclean/packages.exclude, described in the
14 EXCLSUION FILES section of man eclean.
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16 eclean's default behaviour is to retain distfiles for installed packages
17 *that are in the portage tree*. The file Grant wants to protect is not
18 in the portage tree anymore
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