On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 13:47 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 17/12/2012 13:39, justin wrote: > > I am more thinking about packages which are not as easy accessible as > > JRE. There are a couple sci packages which are distributed on request by > > mail other inconvenient methods. Sometimes even not by your own, but by > > your PI or other seniors. And even sometimes upstreams doesn't > > distribute them anymore at all. > > In which case you should keep them somewhere safer anyway, which is what > I do for that kind of files. > > Remember that eclean acts on distfiles as well. >
which is why eclean has a config file where you can add files/pkgs, patterns to exclude from being cleaned. -- Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org>
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