Walter Dnes wrote: > <snip> > > > That's just 1 app. I'm sure there are others that would experience >similar breakage. If you "emerge --pretend --emptytree --world" and an >old version listed for deletion by --prune does *NOT* show up, you'll >probably be safe removing it. Maybe "emerge --pretend --prune" needs to >run "emerge --pretend --emptytree --world" by default, and use its >output as a sanity-check before recommending deletions. > > > Just for the record, I do that command but I then remove each app one by one by it's name. I do NOT just remove the -p option and go take a nap. I trust portage a lot but I also know that some things need more than one version, automake and autoconf being a couple of them but there are more like that.
To be honest, if they removed that -p option. I would switch from Gentoo. Portage is great but I want to test the water before I jump in and find out it is freezing cold or scalding hot. What I wound up doing is removing some temp files, /var/tmp/portage/*, that gave me enough space to carry on a little longer. I'm trying to get my 30GB hard drive back that I loaned out. I'll have plenty of space then. I may end up getting a new 120GB or 160GB drive for this rig though. I need one that is big but cheap. I recently got me a new digital camera and a girlfriend. I'm not sure how long my 2 80GB drives will last in my main rig. Also note to clear up confision. I have four rigs here. All run folding and one is a desktop, rest are servers. I may put that in my sig. Thanks for pointing that out though. That would not be a good idea to run that blindly. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
