Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with /var/cache on unmerge

2006-06-11 Thread Jakub Moc
Daniel Drake wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: maybe give ebuilds a way to maintain a list of files that portage should nuke when unmerging the package ... Something similar to this would be useful for kernel ebuilds, as simply unmerging kernel source will leave a load of temporary and object

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with /var/cache on unmerge

2006-06-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 11 June 2006 05:01, Jakub Moc wrote: Daniel Drake wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: maybe give ebuilds a way to maintain a list of files that portage should nuke when unmerging the package ... Something similar to this would be useful for kernel ebuilds, as simply unmerging

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with /var/cache on unmerge

2006-06-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 09 June 2006 20:25, Andrew Ross wrote: Apologies if this has been addressed previously, i dont believe it has ever come up before Is there any sort of policy covering how an ebuild should deal with /var/cache during unmerge? maybe give ebuilds a way to maintain a list of files that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with /var/cache on unmerge

2006-06-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Mike Frysinger wrote: maybe give ebuilds a way to maintain a list of files that portage should nuke when unmerging the package ... Something similar to this would be useful for kernel ebuilds, as simply unmerging kernel source will leave a load of temporary and object files on the

[gentoo-dev] Dealing with /var/cache on unmerge

2006-06-09 Thread Andrew Ross
Apologies if this has been addressed previously, but my searches of the Gentoo website, devmanual, forums, and mailing list archives didn't turn up anything definitive. Is there any sort of policy covering how an ebuild should deal with /var/cache during unmerge? The devmanual pages for