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From: "Константин" <kastian@××××.ru>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eclean ... won't
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:00:22
Message-Id: 20161120140703.GB14056@eee.birulevo.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] eclean ... won't by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 01:35:46PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Sunday 20 Nov 2016 16:05:29 Константин wrote:
3 > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 09:42:40AM -0300, Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
4 > > > Maybe you need to use 'eclean-dist -d'. But, for your safe, use
5 > > > 'eclean-dist -dp' first.
6 > >
7 > > BTW what troubles can I get from 'eclean-dist -d' ? As far as I
8 > > understand it, re-download needed tar.gz will be the worst isn't it?
9 >
10 > You'd think so, wouldn't you? But recently something has been going wrong here
11 > such that 'eclean-pkg -d' removed every single package, leaving just the
12 > directory structure. That was just after I'd spent six hours building them
13 >
14
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 #kstn

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Re: [gentoo-user] eclean ... won't Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] eclean ... won't "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>