On 03/01/18 21:39, Stroller wrote: >> What this completely misses, is that gentoo-sources merely DOWNLOADS THE >> > LATEST KERNEL SOURCE. So updating gentoo-sources every time does nothing >> > to change the kernel you are running.
> I don't know why you think I missed that. Because you're banging on like downloading the source is the same thing as installing a new kernel - which it's not. > > If you `emerge gentoo-sources` then updates of them will appear every time > you --pretend update world until you allow them to be emerged, hence my use > of the word "nagged". > Which is why I just let them appear and clutter up /usr/src :-) > If you want to install them, that's your prerogative, but just allowing them > to be automatically emerged fills up your system with unwanted uncompressed > kernel sources, consuming huge amounts of space. > I take your point - you're paying for storage by the meg, and a quick du -sh tells me a kernel is approx 1G - ouch. But is the OP like you, or like me - about to upgrade from a home system that already has 6TB of storage ... > 20GB should be ample space for an operating system IMO, but between /usr/src > and /usr/portage it's pretty easy to consume a quarter of that. I remember when it fitted on an 8" floppy :-) It was bad enough installing Slack from a 30-floppy set ... What would be nice, would be if "emerge --depclean" had the smarts to recognise that /usr/src/linux pointed to the current active kernel, and didn't wipe that when it cleaned out everything else :-) That way, at most you could have the current and latest kernel sources available pretty easily. Cheers, Wol
