On 09/16/14 19:58, James wrote:
[snip]
Folks that work on precise computer problems are often "raw" with
one another. "Sarcasm" is an ointment that soothes the pain
of running Gentoo. Verbal abuse develops "thick skin" and most
here on Gentoo User have "thick skin", imho. Devs on this
list often question the gentoo-user base to ferret out if they
need to modify docs, codes or semantics at Gentoo, or if the user
needs. Sometime it does resemble a court room.
"Alan's school of admin abuse" type of treatment to motivate
an excellent user base is not uncommon.
That said, the amount of questions and bandwidth you have incurred
on this group, does warrant administrative incursion into you
admin policies, imho. Maybe, just maybe, folks actually care
that you are wisely successful with Gentoo?
For example since you are distributing, you really need to keep
binaries packages on at least one system. I nuked python, some
years ago. It was only the files on another similar system that
prevent me form a new installation of the system.
Besides, I rather think you are being "groomed" to become a gentoo
dev, so you can abuse the rest of of (gentoo users) commoners?
hth,
James
Thank for suggestions, yes I usually keep the binaries for as long as I have enough room
on "/" :-)
If I'm short on space I periodically nuke them. I've manged to keep the system
going for the last 10-years
and keep my own help-file.txt (notes) how to solve certain problem (but not all
:-/)
I sometime clean the distribution files with this command (I'm sure there might
be a better way).
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cd /usr/portage/distfiles
and run this command:
(emerge -epf world 2>&1 | perl -ne '$f=join("\n", m@\w://[^\s]+/([^\s]+)@g); print "$f\n" if $f' | sort -u; ls -f) | sort | uniq -c | perl -ane 'print "$F[1]\n" if
$F[0]==1 && -f $F[1]' | xargs rm -f
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Regarding keeping the binaries, I'll need to learn how to install compiled
binaries from another box. Never, had a chance to do it yet.
--
Joseph
