On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 15:24:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > You don't need the source package for the kernel you're running,
> > you've already compiled it, but there's another sets trick you can
> > use to prevent depclean from removing kernel packages, put this
> > in /etc/portage/sets.conf  
> 
> I always keep full sources around for any runnable kernel I have, too
> often I've been caught out needing to build a module without them :-)

Same here, although not recently.

> > [kernels]
> > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
> > world-candidate = False
> > files = /usr/src
> > 
> > It stops depclean removing any package that has files in /usr/src.

Which is why I do this.


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Neil Bothwick

"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
of careful development."