On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <SNIP> > > gandalf ~ # slocate MERGING-pam > /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-pam-0.99.8.1-r1 > gandalf ~ # >
I'm never taken the time to understand exactly how portage keeps track of what is on a system so I'm now curious what represents an 'installed' package. Is it simply that there is a directory located under /var/db/pkg? Can I safely remove this directory? As a test I moved it elsewhere and now eix-test-obsolete doesn't complain. I presume at this point I can delete it. there's nothing in the directory as best I can tell and the version number does not match the version of pam currently install. Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
