On August 26, 2004 11:53 pm, Shawn wrote: > I might concede that it is a hold over, but there will almost always be a > time where a rebuild is faster than trying to "fix" a live system (IMO). > Take IPCop for example (I know how much you love it). If I mess something > up with it, and it'll take me longer than 20 minutes to clean up my mess, I > won't bother. It only takes me 15 minutes to install it from scratch, and > my rules are basic enough (on my home system) that I can recreate them in > about 5 minutes. This same balance comes into play with mainstream > servers. If it's going to take me 4 days to figure out how to fix a > problem (or clean up a mess I've made), then a 3 day compile time isn't > that big of a deal - IF it can be done with a minimum of down time. > > That's one nice thing about Linux... If I have a messed up X install, so > what. My main services still run and I can choose when/how long it takes > me to clean it up. >
Have you thought of putting -X in your USE flag and emerge -u world? That should recompile your stuff minus X-necessities. It'll also safely remove the packages that have X stuff in them. Keep your distfiles dir clean and [I think] all X remains will dissappear [perhaps over time, as your packages get updated]. Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
