On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I run depclean, it prints out: > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources > selected: 3.6.11 protected: none omitted: 2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5 > 3.7.10-r1 > > ll /usr/src/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 26 12:35 linux -> linux-3.6.11-gentoo > > The system is using kernel 3.6.11; so I'll keep it. > But why it tries to keep older kernels: 2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5 ?
If you ran emerge --depclean, the older kernels are not there; only the files created when you compiled them (*.o, *.ko, vmlinuz, stuff like that). You can rm -rf the old versions safely. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México