On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:40:30 +0100, Neil Walker wrote:

> 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. ;)

I suggest you read the subject header and the original post. It is quite
clear what Mark was talking about, and these files are removed by emerge
--sync.


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Neil Bothwick

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