From: Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:58:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702232358.16535.harmgeerts@home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10702231446w31468bb8x9a484571ac81608c@mail.gmail.com>
On Friday 23 February 2007, Grant wrote:
> > > It is true then that emerge --depclean never unmerges slotted packages?
> >
> > Just how would portage know that an old slot is no longer needed? Just
> > because a newer version is installed doesn't mean it's been compiled or
> > that the old is no longer needed (you might need to compile some package
> > against the old that fails to compile against the new)...
> >
> > For the more general case slot deps aren't allowed in the tree yet so
> > it's not all that easy to figure out which slots are in use. You do risk
> > breaking your system by pruning the wrong package..
>
> Ok, yes, slot deps sounds like what I'm after here. Is there a
> portage command I can run to see which packages are installed in more
> than one slot? I'm having disk space problems on my laptop.
emerge -Pp
Though you should never run that without --pretend cause that will destroy
your system.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-22 14:16 [gentoo-user] Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources Grant
2007-02-22 15:59 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
[not found] ` <49bf44f10702221530r4439bcbbq8a51865f60a86906@mail.gmail.com>
2007-02-22 23:51 ` Marc Joliet
2007-02-23 0:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-02-23 7:20 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-23 17:49 ` Grant
2007-02-23 18:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-02-23 19:55 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-02-23 22:46 ` Grant
2007-02-23 22:58 ` Harm Geerts [this message]
2007-02-23 23:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Marc Joliet
2007-02-25 2:27 ` Grant
2007-02-22 23:54 ` Harm Geerts
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