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Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

b.n.

2008-04-27

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Neil Walker ha scritto:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> 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.
>>  
>
> I have done that - in fact, I have been following the entire thread.
> However, it cannot be assumed that everyone does. That particular post
> could easily have misled someone just dipping in for the first time into
> believing that "emerge --sync" is dangerous. I felt it necessary to
> correct that. :)

To him, it was. Nothing that couldn't be repaired, but it *damaged* his
system.

m.

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