just 'rm -rf'ing the source dirs gets rid of the files, true, but not
formally unmerging packages desynchronizes the package management
system, which will think you still have the older versions installed.
In practice, I don't think it causes any real problems (maybe it will
make emerge(1) take a little longer when calculating dependencies...),
but it will allow cruft to build in your system, and with it, possible
troubleshooting difficulties.
--myk
Samir Faci wrote:
is there an advantage to doing that as opposed to rm -fr
/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-r10 (or whatever the dir is called)? Just
curious, I always just used the rm -fr
Myk Taylor wrote:
emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10
or
emerge -C =gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10
-C is short for --unmerge
C. Beamer wrote:
I would like to remove the oldest one - specifically
linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10
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