Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But that's totally irrelevant as to whether you have other versions of > gentoo-sources installed. All that probably indicates is that you *had* > them installed at one time, and probably unmerged them. The directories > likely still exist because other files exist in those directories that > were not part of the package (object files, .config files, depend files, > etc). When you unmerge a package it only removes the files belonging to > that package. If a directory was created by a package, but is not empty > when that package removes it's files, then portage does not remove that > directory (for fear of deleting something you wanted). If you don't > want it then, e.g. > > # ls -a /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 |less > # rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8
OK again. I hadn't soaked in that what was in those directories was debris from builds and not the installed files. Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
