From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M0w7f-0000T9-C6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 11:14:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 183ADE03E7; Mon, 4 May 2009 11:14:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBADAE03E7 for ; Mon, 4 May 2009 11:14:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.30] (dslb-188-098-071-204.pools.arcor-ip.net [188.98.71.204]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKuxg-1M0w7b3O5t-0000wz; Mon, 04 May 2009 13:14:07 +0200 Message-ID: <49FECDFF.8020202@konstantinhansen.de> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 13:14:07 +0200 From: KH User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090502) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Packages with Portage References: <20090504105558.19d2565b@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090504105558.19d2565b@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+9z5zMydrN4vsHHuMu7usPWZ4h6oVM/9PiJCp mPbRbSHEJbUEq9Yx7WwSp8pmXMx87VWGqGdteFjH3RPkzejz9W sUrpn1nbGDLVP5E/1DHrQ== X-Archives-Salt: 45829529-a6d9-4af8-875a-01f560f17141 X-Archives-Hash: 4883abdb220cc1a2eb22949a3ab63205 Neil Bothwick schrieb: > 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. > > Anyway you also might want to run an emerge --depclean -av after unmerging. Maybe there are othere programs not needed anymore at now. kh