From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27985 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2004 22:32:55 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 Apr 2004 22:32:55 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BD9z5-0001oa-HU for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:32:55 +0000 Received: (qmail 23913 invoked by uid 50004); 12 Apr 2004 22:32:55 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 8857 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2004 22:32:55 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:32:50 +0200 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-Id: <20040413003250.3d9bf6db@sven.genone.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <200404122320.21529.stuart@gentoo.org> References: <200404121739.i3CHdI4L023928@mxsf17.cluster1.charter.net> <200404122217.33781.stuart@gentoo.org> <20040412232637.1d3ba123@sven.genone.homeip.net> <200404122320.21529.stuart@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Linux X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: H@&[wkk?l:Zx:8i_5bViK&{Vz{c{~r),^&:v/r#+X5dmfA6qCl)~'Ul{"&06Q1[05.%v&c>je5R{=xLnx^=~lN~rO0xuR~~NY)CX\"Nc4$9CBPwDl-.pYuVeGdir86L@\:j?7@%Ej2?Wi-Y0=1]T14ce0w79Bckk[*ti{;iA"{;I}&E~.msRBsBS)N!CS4Gd|_UR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Tue__13_Apr_2004_00_32_50_+0200_U27tv4pxy56IiBfb" X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:7e6c91d1b14dbccceb2f2166522fa0f6 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers X-Archives-Salt: f8ae6eb3-2901-46d2-a249-0d6eb601c76a X-Archives-Hash: e4031788028067ddf2f00ccb96a3a3e7 --Signature=_Tue__13_Apr_2004_00_32_50_+0200_U27tv4pxy56IiBfb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/12/04 Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Monday 12 April 2004 22:26, Marius Mauch wrote: > > I don't understand you here: The cache files are temporary, they can > > be removed at any time and will be regenerated when portage accesses > > the ebuild, just the first run will be very slow (I could give you > > numbers if I wouldn't run a world update atm). > > > > Marius > > If you did this: > > rm -rf /var/cache/* > > on your machine right now, portage would continue to work 100%? There > would be no loss of functionality at all? Just the performance loss? Ah, I misread your original reply. The cache files (which was the topic) can stay there, I agree that the other files (world, virtuals) should be moved. Oh, portage should continue to work, although differently than you would expect ;) Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. --Signature=_Tue__13_Apr_2004_00_32_50_+0200_U27tv4pxy56IiBfb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAexkVWzrL1pM7SNcRAj2nAJ4rtk+bRh5rKjiMVJtxe7OqYgES1wCfYGIu Yl1U708/BfJk/vqk51aRNt4= =LvxE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__13_Apr_2004_00_32_50_+0200_U27tv4pxy56IiBfb--