From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Before doing something wrong
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:28:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607211728.50451.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B7DBF2.7080801@arcor.de>
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On Friday 14 July 2006 20:01, Sascha Hlusiak wrote:
> Nope, -C is the short for --unmerge. -c would be --clean.
Correct.
> And --clean cleans a package, that means when you have two versions of a
> non slotted ebuild installed. It automatically happens after you upgrade
> a package, first the new version is installed parallel to the existing
> one, then the old one is "cleaned out".
>
> You should never need a manual --clean :) But it should never break
> anything, which --unmerge can.
This is absolutely false. --clean has no effect on unslotted packages. It is
equivalent to --prune except that it only removes old slots if nothing
depends on them. Read `man emerge`.
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Bo Andresen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-21 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-13 2:30 [gentoo-user] Before doing something wrong Meino Christian Cramer
2006-07-13 4:18 ` Dale
2006-07-14 18:01 ` Sascha Hlusiak
2006-07-14 18:12 ` Dale
2006-07-21 15:28 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen [this message]
2006-07-13 20:48 ` Benno Schulenberg
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