On Mon, 4 May 2009 10:45:00 +0100, Matt Causey wrote: > Sooo, my question. What is the expected behaviour here? Are the > ebuilds intended to maintain knowledge of the files they put on a > system, so they can remove the binaries when --unmerge'd? Are kernel > modules handled differently because of the possibility of damaging a > working system?
The latter. The user programs will be gone but the kernel modules stay. With more "normal" packages, the only files that are not removed are those in CONFIG_PROTECTed directories and those that have been modified since installation. -- Neil Bothwick Out of body, be back in five minutes.
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