On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 10:21, Markus Wagner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:06, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> > emerge clean doesn't do anything to your system, it only removes
> > ebuild-files from _your_ portage-tree that aren't available anymore on
> > the rsync-server(s) (and thus aren't really in Gentoo anymore).

I think this is why they made it default, if you clean out those old
packages imediately you wont get into trouble when cleaning out the
system after some month of updates