Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:38:42 -0400:
> You don't need to backup any of it. Everything under /usr/portage can > be regained with an "emerge --sync" except distfiles, and those are > redownloaded the next time you merge a package that requires it. ... And package files, if in the default location. Someone using FEATURES=buildpkg could understandably be rather peeved if due to failure to back that up (because it wasn't said to be necessary), it wasn't there when it actually came time to use that backup. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
