On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:20 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:38:41 +0200 > Frank Schafer wrote: > > > There shouldn't be more logs than we have actually packages installed. > > The log for the installation of the version of (say) python I had > > installed 3 years ago isn't worth anything. (Me to say) A successful > > installation of a new version of a package can safely overwrite the old > > log because IMHO nobody needs the installation logs of not installed > > software. > > It does provide some useful functionality IMHO, (and obviously in the > NSHO of the designer of the logging system.) > > I quite _like_ to see when i first installed mplayer, what versions i > had installed at certain times, how long it will take to emerge (averaged > over all the times I have previously emerged it). I > particularly like being able to pipe emerge -puD world into genlop -p > and find out how long a whole lot of ebuilds is likely to take. > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
O.K. if you want to se all of this fo years, maybe you're glad enough to own a n at least some TB disk array. ;) After emerging of a minimal system (91 packages during semrge system) the content of /var/log/portage takes 250MB. Due to the wanna know how long does it take ... ``ls'' is your friend. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
