* [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources
@ 2007-02-23 22:58 99% ` Harm Geerts
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From: Harm Geerts @ 2007-02-23 22:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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