From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HUNzQ-0004Pp-AK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:10:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2ME7ION031197; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:07:18 GMT Received: from nemesis.fprintf.net (nemesis.fprintf.net [66.134.112.218]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2ME7F6t031100 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:07:16 GMT Received: (qmail 22910 invoked by uid 210); 22 Mar 2007 10:07:12 -0400 Received: from 65.247.36.242 by nemesis (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.88.7/2898. spamassassin: 3.1.8. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:0(65.247.36.242):SA:0(-4.0/5.0):. Processed in 1.046776 secs); 22 Mar 2007 14:07:12 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.0 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.68.253.179?) (dang@fprintf.net@65.247.36.242) by nemesis.fprintf.net with SMTP; 22 Mar 2007 10:07:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick Portage How to From: Daniel Gryniewicz To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200703212155.22748.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> References: <46017D53.2060805@ercbroadband.org> <46018097.20403@frontiernet.net> <200703212155.22748.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:06:21 -0400 Message-Id: <1174572381.9356.0.camel@athena.fprintf.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 88e78cfc-411f-4a76-952b-b61c6e69e9c6 X-Archives-Hash: 6109c202e60c647c2a8bcfbbba0a1426 On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 21:55 +0100, Bernhard Auzinger wrote: > > 'unmerge'ing those you don't want will clean up portage's database of > > installed packages. Doesn't remove /lib/modules// > > though or old kernels from /boot/. Seems that manual deletion is > > required here. > > That's because one may still want to use a compiled kernel after the removal > of the kernel sources. > Actually, it's because portage only removes what portage installed, which is the source, in this case. It didn't install the modules (you did, by running make modules_install), so it won't remove them. Daniel -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list