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 4.50) id 1EZTua-00023r-EM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 13:53:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA8DqBua000836; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:52:11 GMT Received: from mwg.inxservices.lan ([216.132.251.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA8DmP4u014489 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:48:26 GMT Received: (qmail 27827 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Nov 2005 05:47:13 -0800 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 05:47:13 -0800 From: George Garvey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with module-rebuild Message-ID: <20051108134713.GP6231@inxservices.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <436F8E2A.8020209@planet.nl> <20051107182315.7ec24bbe@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <436FA41B.7060207@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <436FA41B.7060207@planet.nl> Organization: inX Services, Los Angeles, CA, USA User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: d2b1e67b-426b-450d-87c1-c821f1b2967f X-Archives-Hash: 3da5c43f24216c61643042cf00f8a419 On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:59:39PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Neil Bothwick schreef: > > On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:26:02 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > > > > > >> And my question is, how to get it to stop doing that. If Portage > >> has a FEATURES setting that prevents the previous version being > >> unmerged this way, I don't know what it is..... > > > > > > Doesn't AUTOCLEAN="no" do this? > > > > It is a separate setting, not a FEATURE. Setting AUTOCLEAN to no, generally, will make a mess (in my opinion). Then, ALL old copies of things that are updated will be left installed. One ends up with multiple installed versions of every package on the system eventually. Maybe just for that one package it would be okay. But it sounds like the wrong answer. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list