[gentoo-dev] emerge update and the deletion of replaced packages

[gentoo-dev] emerge update and the deletion of replaced packages

[Nicholas Burlett]

When I recently ran emerge --update, it upgraded all of my installed
packages that had new ebuilds, but didn't unmerge the duplicates. Is
there a good way to automagically unmerge the older versions of the
duplicates, or does this need to be done by hand?

Thanks,
Nick

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge update and the deletion of replaced packages

[Jack Morgan]

Nicholas Burlett wrote:
> 
> When I recently ran emerge --update, it upgraded all of my installed
> packages that had new ebuilds, but didn't unmerge the duplicates. Is
> there a good way to automagically unmerge the older versions of the
> duplicates, or does this need to be done by hand?

Now wat to automagically do it, just manually. Read the Portage User
Guide
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/portage-user.html, as a hint try

ebuild /var/db/pkg/<directory>/<packagage>/package.ebuild unmerge

jack_morgan