Re: [gentoo-user] Before doing something wrong

[Sascha Hlusiak]

> If you installed a program that you no longer need, you can do a emerge
> -C <package name> and it will remove it for you.  The -C is the same as
> --clean by the way.
Nope, -C is the short for --unmerge. -c would be --clean.

And --clean cleans a package, that means when you have two versions of a
non slotted ebuild installed. It automatically happens after you upgrade
a package, first the new version is installed parallel to the existing
one, then the old one is "cleaned out".

You should never need a manual --clean :) But it should never break
anything, which --unmerge can.


Regards,
Sascha