On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just ran "emerge -p --depclean" and the only thing it wants to remove is > gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12. So my system's pretty clean, but I'm quite > puzzled with this result. > > I have 5 versions of gentoo-sources installed, and the one it wants to ditch > is the one I'm actually using. I can understand why it wouldn't care about > that, but why not: > 2.6.31-r10 which is no longer in the tree > any of the others, which are marked in exactly the same way as the > victim it picked? Some are older, and some are newer than this > victim. What gives? > > I'm just wondering about how --depclean picked on this one of the five? > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD >
Look in /var/lib/portage/world and see if you are protecting the versions you think it should be cleaning but it isn't. Hope this helps, Mark
