Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 26 April 2008, Neil Walker wrote:
>  
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>  
>>> I log in and want
>>> to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type
>>> emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong.
>>>    
>> What the heck are you talking about? "emerge --sync" doesn't delete
>> ANY files from your system.
>>  
>
> Oh yes it does.
>  

Oh no it doesn't. :P

The portage tree is not required to even be present. Nothing will stop
working without it (other than portage itself - and "emerge --sync" will
fix that). The OP made it sound like running "emerge --sync" had trashed
his system by removing key system files. That is not the case. ;)


Be lucky,

Neil


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