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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> What is this directory, and especially its dep/ subdirectory? Do I |
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> really need it? What programs read and write it? |
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That's a cache directory that portage uses. It is generally safe to |
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remove it; portage will regenerate the information the next time you |
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run it. |
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The dep subdirectory contains cached dependency information for |
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ebuilds. It only gets populated if you locally modify ebuilds on your |
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system; otherwise, the metadata directory from the repository |
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(/usr/portage/metadata) is used instead. |
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For ebuild developers that use a git development repo, there is no |
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metadata in the repository, so the /var/cache/edb/dep directory sees |
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much more use. |
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