On 28/04/2013 18:06, Randy Barlow wrote: > On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 09:29 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> Do you have them in your world file? > > I've noticed a few time before that gentoo-sources occasionally ends up > in my world file with a specific version (rather than just being > unversioned, like most packages in world). This will cause depclean to > leave those versions installed. > > I've never determined what I am doing that causes that to get there with > the specific version, but I've noticed it gets in there sometimes. I > just remove it from the file and continue, but perhaps one day I'll > figure out when (and why) it's getting in there in the first place. >
By far the most likely cause is you type emerge =gentoo-sources-<something> and forget to use the -1 option. It's the same thing that results in packages called *lib* in world -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
