On Tuesday 04 Apr 2017 17:52:30 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > Has anyone else noticed that running "eclean-pkg -d" removes all > > packages, or nearly so? I've had it happen recently on a few amd64 > > systems and an x86 system, and it's becoming annoying. Well, no, > > actually it's long since become annoying. > > If it is removing to much, leave out the -d option. With -d, it only > leaves the minimum needed to re-emerge the packages currently > installed. It works the same way with -dist as well. From the man page: > > -d, --deep only keep the minimum for a reinstallation > > I think if you leave off the -d option it leaves anything that is still > in the tree, may include overlays as well.
Yes, I've done that of course. The point is that it used to work with -d, and now it doesn't. If you ask how I know it used to work, my answer is that of course I don't, but at least it only removed a sensible-looking number of packages. The other day I was left with just six package files and the directory structure. I haven't noticed a problem with eclean-dist. -- Regards Peter
