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"

e.g.

emerge =nano-1.2.1
--- nano-1.2.1 gets installed
emerge -u nano
--- nano-1.2.2 gets installed
emerge -C nano
--- files from nano-1.2.1 that aren't part of  nano-1.2.2 get removed
emerge unmerge nano
-- nano-1.2.2 gets removed

AUTOCLEAN=yes in make.conf will cause emerge -C to be run after every package 
is installed.

Jason

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