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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers
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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
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