On Saturday 23 February 2008, Erik wrote:
> I am running
> emerge -ef world
> eclean --destructive distfiles'
> emerge -ef world
> eclean --destructive distfiles
> ...
>
> Each time eclean removes the following files:
>  * Building file list for distfiles cleaning...
>  * Cleaning distfiles...
>  [ 258.9 K ] XML-LibXML-1.65.tar.gz
>  [ 478.6 K ] klibc-1.5.8.tar.bz2
>  [ 290.2 K ] libassuan-1.0.4.tar.bz2
>  [  67.7 K ] mftrace-1.2.9.tar.gz
>  [   9.2 M ] patch-2.6.24-rc7.bz2
>  [ 243.4 K ] setuptools-0.6c7.tar.gz
>  * Total space that has been freed in distfiles directory: 10.5 M
>
> Then emerge downloads them again. I had expected that those 2
> programs should agree on which files belong in the set of distfiles.

What happens if you use 'emerge -uNDf world" instead of 'emerge -ef 
world'

-e is a special case and does not equate to the same thing as -uND

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Alan McKinnon
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