On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:31 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:59:53 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: > > > O.K. if you want to se all of this fo years, maybe you're glad enough to > > own a n at least some TB disk array. ;) > > After emerging of a minimal system (91 packages during semrge system) > > the content of /var/log/portage takes 250MB. > > Which is easier? For you to create a script to delete all old logfiles in > here, or for someone who needs them to write a script to recover them > after your proposed method deletes them? > > Alternatively, you could have a cron job that gzips them, reducing the > size by around 90%. > > > Due to the wanna know how long does it take ... > > ``ls'' is your friend. > > genlop doesn't even need per-package logging to $PORT_LOGDIR, and it
So genlop isn't a reason to not change the names of the log files, is it? Both type of user could be happy. Th one, which uses a bunch of nifty tools and the one who uses UNIX commands (hmmm... nifty tools too ;) > saves on the mental arithmetic. Personally, I prefer to let the computer > do the work whenever possible. It's why I bought it. > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
