Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] --exclude gentoo-sources
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 23:35:55
Message-Id: 53DC2451.6000009@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] --exclude gentoo-sources by behrouz khosravi
1 On 08/01/2014 01:19 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote:
2 > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:58 PM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 >> Howdy,
4 >>
5 >> I know I can use this option to protect kernel sources I
6 >> want to keep around, from removal, via depclean.
7 >>
8 >
9 > Well I not a proficient user, but I think that depclean wont remove
10 > packages from distfiles.
11 > At least what happened to me was that depclean removed the sources
12 > from /usr/src/ folder but the linux.xxx remained in the disfiles
13 > folder.
14 >
15
16 If you want to clean the distfiles directory, use eclean-dist. It scans
17 what you have installed and removes sources that you don't need. Use
18 `eclean-dist --help` for more info.
19
20 Dan