On Mon, 4 May 2009 10:45:00 +0100, Matt Causey wrote:

> Sooo, my question.  What is the expected behaviour here?  Are the
> ebuilds intended to maintain knowledge of the files they put on a
> system, so they can remove the binaries when --unmerge'd?  Are kernel
> modules handled differently because of the possibility of damaging a
> working system?

The latter. The user programs will be gone but the kernel modules stay.
With more "normal" packages, the only files that are not removed are
those in CONFIG_PROTECTed directories and those that have been modified
since installation.


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Neil Bothwick

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