On 29 March 2012 08:21, Aaron W. Swenson <titanof...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > 'Support' is the keyword here. The repositories are regenerated given > machinesan 'emerge --sync' and can be considered as temporary as the > packages themselves are impermanent. Further, the repository isn't > required to persist. If somebody really wanted to be hard on our > infrastructure, they could do an 'emerge --sync' at boot to repopulate > /var/cache/gentoo-repos/. > > Though of course, if anybody has custom stuff in say, /usr/portage/local/ which they make by hand, nuking /usr/portage will make you *Very* unpopular. As will I be if I have /usr/portage/distfiles under /usr/portage/ and you nuke /usr/portage including distfiles. I could download distfiles again, but sorry, bandwidth is not free in every country, and neither is the time wasted by redownloading it all. -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
