On Tuesday 17 August 2010 21:53:32 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always > to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ?
Not that I know of. What you could do is always make a backup of all packages when they are installed with FEATURES=buildpkg. When you uninstall them, the last backup you made it already there. If you keep the backups reasonably pruned, total size will be approximately the size of /usr and /opt together. Or, you could just habitually quickpkg and package you think you might want to keep before you unmerge it. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
