From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:27:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10702241827l63defcdbk7c383845dee84586@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702232358.16535.harmgeerts@home.nl>
> > > > 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.
Ok, I guess this is where I either stop or find out if udept works.
- Grant
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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 ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2007-02-23 23:28 ` Marc Joliet
2007-02-25 2:27 ` Grant [this message]
2007-02-22 23:54 ` Harm Geerts
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