This show the disadvantage of aggressively cleaning $DISTDIR. You have
already downloaded this file once, when you installed 2.6.17-r1 (or even
earlier when you first installed a 2.6.17 kernel). Patch level updates
use
the same source files, so cleaning out tarballs for installed packages
results in more downloads and more load on the mirrors.
Thanks for pointing this out. Suppose it's listed somewhere, but new to me.
Newbie
p.s. perhaps a permanent link on the newsletter to a page titled "20 (30?)
useful tidbits that everyone knows about Gentoo, that make life
easier"? It would include a link to Bugzilla; references to equery
depends; dep -L; pquery --vdb --revdep; only one emerge sync per day; etc.
i.e. all the stuff that recurrs here.
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