Re: [gentoo-user] eclean ... won't

[Dale]

J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Sunday, November 20, 2016 05:07:03 PM Константин wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 01:35:46PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> On Sunday 20 Nov 2016 16:05:29 Константин wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 09:42:40AM -0300, Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
>>>>> Maybe you need to use 'eclean-dist -d'. But, for your safe, use
>>>>> 'eclean-dist -dp' first.
>>>> BTW what troubles can I get from 'eclean-dist -d' ? As far as I
>>>> understand it, re-download needed tar.gz will be the worst isn't it?
>>> You'd think so, wouldn't you? But recently something has been going wrong
>>> here such that 'eclean-pkg -d' removed every single package, leaving just
>>> the directory structure. That was just after I'd spent six hours building
>>> them
>> Don't take me wrong it was not an objection but just a question. There
>> are a lot of warnigns, but no explanations except 'users will not be
>> protected in case they need to downgrade a package or re-install a
>> previously removed package.' or similar.
>>
>> And thanks for example.
> One example where this can be annoying is with packages that have fetch-
> restriction enabled. Or, even worse, where certain versions are no longer
> available for download.
>
> --
> Joost
>
>


For those, you can use this option.

-f, --fetch-restricted        protect fetch-restricted files (--deep only)

It only works with -d is the only problem I see with it.  It would be
nice if it would work for all of them. 

Dale

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