* Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It won't interfere with running ebuilds, because pgrep emerge 
> will cause it to exit if emerge is running. 

Ah, I missed that point ;-o

> Deleting anything over a day old is dangerous, think openoffice 
> on a slow/loaded machine. 

Therefore I'm using more than one day. Actually, I don't use
overbloated stuff like OO ;-P

> ebuilds should clean up after themselves, so you only get cruft 
> in $PORTAGE_TMPDIR when an ebuild fails.

Right, but this tends to be quite often in the last time :(

> No, it doesn't clean distfiles, but you didn't ask about them, 
> use eclean for that.

hmm, won't help me very much, since I don't want to keep distfiles
for already installed packages, but those which are scheduled
for update (running nightly emerge -uDF world).


cu
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