On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:32:29 -0700 George Roberts wrote: > Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses. > > By "snapshot" (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the > system regenerate a "snapshot" of where the system is today.
no a snapshot is a tarball of the /usr/portage directory made at a certain point in time, and not including the distfiles or packages subdirectories. What the poster was saying was that if you want to completely clean out /usr/portage, then delete it and install a (recent) snapshot, then you have what portage provides and only what portage provides. I am not sure I agree that that is a good idea, just trying to explain what was posted earlier. > So that if > I were to a "merge --newuse world", only the active packages in use as > of today would be rebuilt. Or I just totally lost somewhere out in left > field? > > Dave Nebinger wrote: > > >To 'clean' your /usr/portage directory you could try removing the whole > >thing then drop a snapshot in place. > > > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
