On Friday 24 October 2003 22:08, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > It's time to start cleaning up my system and I've removed all the > > older kernels I've emerged and tried. I'm happy with > > gs-sources-2.4.23_pre7 so the rest are already gone. I do have > > sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1, which I didn't install. Maybe > > it came down with the original portage sync or whatever I did. I > > imagine this is for people who use "emerge -k some-kernel" since > > they won't get the full source files and more importantly, the > > headers (they're needed when compiling some apps, right ??). > > > > Anyway, can it go ?? > > Short answer: no. > > Long answer: it was installed as part of the original 'emerge > system'. glibc was compiled against these headers as are a lot of > applications. Its generally a good idea to keep glibc and > applications that link to glibc on common ground.
Ooh, good thing I asked before I got "emerge -C" happy !! That's one that will stay.... :-) I also seem to recall seeing a thread at Gentoo's forums in regards to packages you can safely remove, ones you can't, and so on. I'll go read up on it soon. Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
