->-----Original Message-----
->From: Jay Goodman Tamboli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
->Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 5:24 PM
->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
->Subject: [gentoo-user] clean removing wrong stuff
->
->
->I've noticed two odd issues with emerge clean.  First is
->that for some packages it wants to protect an old version
->while selecting a newer.  Allowing this to go removes the
->new one, which overwrote many of the old files, leaving the
->package useless.  Second issue is that it sometimes, when
->removing an old version, removes files that had been updates
->with the install of a new version.  Re-emerging fixes the
->problem, obviously.
->
->I'm trying to be careful, I have an old version of GCC
->installed, and I'd like to clean it, but I don't want to
->risk removing the new files.  Is there any way to see,
->exactly, what files will be removed?  Is this a known issue,
->and is there anything I can do to repair the database?
->
->/jgt

Just to make sure, you positive you havent emerged stuff w/ unstable ~x86 in
your make.conf, then reverted back to the stable ~arch setting, which would
clean the newer files instead of the older?

kev


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