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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:07:39 -0600
From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage-utils reinitialization - do I need it?
References: <201112230950.23223.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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On 12/23/2011 03:50 AM, Mick wrote:
> This came up today when I updated portage-utils:
> 
> * Messages for package app-portage/portage-utils-0.8:
> 
> * /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize has been installed for
> convenience * If you wish for it to be automatically run at the end
> of every --sync: *    # chmod +x
> /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize
> 
> I'm not really sure if I need to be running this script after I
> resync:
> 
> #!/bin/sh [ -x /usr/bin/q ] && /usr/bin/q -r ${PORTAGE_QUIET:+-q}
> 
> which from the man page of q tells me that it will "reinitialize
> ebuild cache".  Do I need this if I already use eix?  Doesn't eix
> manage all portage databases?

I believe q-reinitialize updates the cache used by the q* utils. If
you don't use them for searching (using eix instead) then it's
probably not important for you to add that.
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