On Sunday, November 20, 2016 05:07:03 PM Константин wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 01:35:46PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday 20 Nov 2016 16:05:29 Константин wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 09:42:40AM -0300, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > > > > Maybe you need to use 'eclean-dist -d'. But, for your safe, use > > > > 'eclean-dist -dp' first. > > > > > > BTW what troubles can I get from 'eclean-dist -d' ? As far as I > > > understand it, re-download needed tar.gz will be the worst isn't it? > > > > You'd think so, wouldn't you? But recently something has been going wrong > > here such that 'eclean-pkg -d' removed every single package, leaving just > > the directory structure. That was just after I'd spent six hours building > > them > Don't take me wrong it was not an objection but just a question. There > are a lot of warnigns, but no explanations except 'users will not be > protected in case they need to downgrade a package or re-install a > previously removed package.' or similar. > > And thanks for example.
One example where this can be annoying is with packages that have fetch- restriction enabled. Or, even worse, where certain versions are no longer available for download. -- Joost
