Bug 195 – proposal to redefine the meaning of --clean and to add --purge

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description aeoo 2002-01-16 00:01:12 UTC]

On one hand, it's desirable to have a clean portage tree when doing

emerge --world update

But, on the other hand, you may have some old ebuilds you want to keep, or maybe
you have your own custom ebuilds that you want to keep.

Thus, what about making

emerge --clean rsync

instead of removing the old ebuilds, moving them somewhere else for safekeeping.
 Then we could use another option, like --purge to actually delete them. 
--purge would work exactly the same way as --clean currently works.

This idea belongs to userwaldo, but since he's too sleepy to file it, I'm filing
it instead.

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-01-16 10:04:26 UTC]

Um, we recommend anonymous cvs rather than rsync for people who tweak their
files.  I think this is the way to go.