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From: Markus Wagner <mw@××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dangerous features in portage
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 03:21:43
Message-Id: 200210291021.38999.mw@teamzone.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dangerous features in portage by Sven Vermeulen
1 Hi!
2
3 On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:06, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
4 > emerge clean doesn't do anything to your system, it only removes
5 > ebuild-files from _your_ portage-tree that aren't available anymore on
6 > the rsync-server(s) (and thus aren't really in Gentoo anymore).
7
8 Not at all. From "man emerge":
9
10 clean (-c)
11 Cleans the system by removing packages that will not effect the
12 functionality of the system. The arguments can be ebuilds, classes, or
13 dependencies. For example, emerge clean binutils cleans out old versions
14 of binutils; emerge clean net-www/mozilla-0.9.9-r2 cleans out that
15 specific version of Mozilla. This is generally safe to use. Note that
16 clean does not remove unslotted packages.
17
18 So if there are foobar-1.0 and foobar-1.1 installed and they are in the
19 same slot, "emerge clean" will safely unmerge foobar-1.0.
20
21 > Your missing .so-files have an other cause...
22
23 ACK.
24
25 Markus
26 --
27 "We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to
28 consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed
29 when you try to debug them." ( Larry Wall )

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