On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 05:43:27 +0100, Wols Lists wrote: > > Yes, it would be. The first way, portage just scans the list of files > > and tries to delete what isn't there; the second way it actually has > > to delete real files. > > > I doubt that's the problem. After all, rm has to delete the files too. > > I guess portage scans the files and looks up whether it can delete them > or not. If you've deleted them already, that step no longer happens ...
That's what I thought, it has to check whether each file has been modified before deleting it, then it deletes that one file. rm just chucks the whole lot in the bin. -- Neil Bothwick Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
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