Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As much as for backup, having the binary packages ... has been > useful for looking up exactly what /was/ included in a package, and > where it should be, both for the version I have currently merged, > and for a version or two back, when something quits working and I'm > trying to figure out why.
A portage log is useful for that sort of thing. I also didn't get burned by the xorg-x11 bug, for me also because I had lib the symlink to lib64. > Of course, having several versions of binary package available also > helps when one wants to test a quick reversion to a previous > version, to see if it fixes a problem, without having to remerge it > from source. I did that to back out of the latest binutils, which gives hardened toolchain a mild head cold. And if I don't trust installing some software unattended, I emerge with --buildpkgonly and let that do its work, then install later with --usepkgonly. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chemoelectric.org "Even if they say lofty things like `democracy' or whatever it is they say, they don't mean it." -- David Durenberger, former Republican U. S. senator, on today's "Republicans"
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