Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick Portage How to
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:10:06
Message-Id: 1174572381.9356.0.camel@athena.fprintf.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick Portage How to by Bernhard Auzinger
1 On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 21:55 +0100, Bernhard Auzinger wrote:
2 > > 'unmerge'ing those you don't want will clean up portage's database of
3 > > installed packages. Doesn't remove /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/
4 > > though or old kernels from /boot/. Seems that manual deletion is
5 > > required here.
6 >
7 > That's because one may still want to use a compiled kernel after the removal
8 > of the kernel sources.
9 >
10
11 Actually, it's because portage only removes what portage installed,
12 which is the source, in this case. It didn't install the modules (you
13 did, by running make modules_install), so it won't remove them.
14
15 Daniel
16
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