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> > It is true then that emerge --depclean never unmerges slotted packages? |
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> Just how would portage know that an old slot is no longer needed? Just because |
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> a newer version is installed doesn't mean it's been compiled or that the old |
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> is no longer needed (you might need to compile some package against the old |
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> that fails to compile against the new)... |
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> For the more general case slot deps aren't allowed in the tree yet so it's not |
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> all that easy to figure out which slots are in use. You do risk breaking your |
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> system by pruning the wrong package.. |
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Ok, yes, slot deps sounds like what I'm after here. Is there a |
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portage command I can run to see which packages are installed in more |
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than one slot? I'm having disk space problems on my laptop. |
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- Grant |
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