On Monday 17 November 2003 04:55, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2003 10:51, Luke Scharf wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 19:31, Stroller wrote: > > > On Nov 16, 2003, at 8:03 pm, Luke Scharf wrote: > > > > 4. Emerge -- does unmerge remove the files from the system? > > > > > > I always use `emerge -C some-package`, but someone else will be along > > > shortly with a safer option. > > > > According to the man page, that's the official way to do it! > > > > "emerge unmerge " == "emerge -C " > > "emerge unmerge" != "emerge -C" > "emerge clean" == "emerge -C" >
Hmm, it's actually the other way round. From the manpage: clean (-c) Cleans the system by removing packages that will not effect the functionality of the system. The arguments can be ebuilds, classes, or dependencies. For example, emerge clean binutils cleans out old versions of binutils; emerge clean net-www/mozilla-0.9.9-r2 cleans out that specific version of Mozilla. This is generally safe to use. Note that clean does not remove unslotted packages. unmerge (-C) WARNING: This action can remove important packages! Removes all matching packages. This does no checking of dependencies, so it may remove packages necessary for the proper operation of your system. Its arguments can be ebuilds, classes, or dependencies -- see clean above for examples. e.g. emerge =nano-1.2.1 --- nano-1.2.1 gets installed emerge -u nano --- latest nano (now nano-1.2.2) gets installed emerge -C nano --- unmerges all installed versions of nano emerge unmerge nano -- the same as above > > AUTOCLEAN=yes in make.conf will cause emerge -C to be run after every > package is installed. AUTOCLEAN=yes in make.conf will cause emerge -c (notice the lower-case 'c') to be run after every package is installed. All "unprotected" packages get removed. "Unprotected" means (as I understand it), that if there are multiple versions of a package installed and they _cannot_ coexist together, then every version but the most recent one are removed. Hope that helps. Cheers, Renat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
