Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

On 09/16/14 19:58, James wrote:
[snip]
>
>Folks that work on precise computer problems are often "raw" with
>one another. "Sarcasm" is an ointment that soothes the pain
>of running Gentoo. Verbal abuse develops "thick skin" and most
>here on Gentoo User have "thick skin", imho.  Devs on this
>list often question the gentoo-user base to ferret out if they
>need to modify docs, codes or semantics at Gentoo, or if the user
>needs. Sometime it does resemble a court room.
>
> "Alan's school of admin abuse" type of treatment to motivate
>an excellent user base is not uncommon.
>
>That said, the amount of questions and bandwidth you have incurred
>on this group, does warrant administrative incursion into you
>admin policies, imho. Maybe, just maybe, folks actually care
>that you are wisely successful with Gentoo?
>
>For example since you are distributing, you really need to keep
>binaries packages on at least one system. I nuked python, some
>years ago. It was only the files on another similar system that
>prevent me form a new installation of the system.
>
>Besides, I rather think you are being "groomed" to become a gentoo
>dev, so you can abuse the rest of of (gentoo users) commoners?
>
>
>hth,
>James

Thank for suggestions, yes I usually keep the binaries for as long as I have enough room on "/" :-)
If I'm short on space I periodically nuke them. I've manged to keep the system going for the last 10-years
and keep my own help-file.txt (notes) how to solve certain problem (but not all :-/)

I sometime clean the distribution files with this command (I'm sure there might be a better way).
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cd /usr/portage/distfiles

and run this command:
(emerge -epf world  2>&1 | perl -ne '$f=join("\n", m@\w://[^\s]+/([^\s]+)@g); print "$f\n" if $f' | sort -u; ls -f) | sort | uniq -c | perl -ane 'print "$F[1]\n" if 
$F[0]==1 && -f $F[1]' | xargs rm -f
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Regarding keeping the binaries, I'll need to learn how to install compiled binaries from another box.  Never, had a chance to do it yet.

-- 
Joseph