Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

[Marc Joliet]

Am Freitag, den 23.02.2007, 23:58 +0100 schrieb Harm Geerts:
> On Friday 23 February 2007, Grant wrote:
> > > > It is true then that emerge --depclean never unmerges slotted packages?
> > >
> > > Just how would portage know that an old slot is no longer needed? Just
> > > because a newer version is installed doesn't mean it's been compiled or
> > > that the old is no longer needed (you might need to compile some package
> > > against the old that fails to compile against the new)...
> > >
> > > For the more general case slot deps aren't allowed in the tree yet so
> > > it's not all that easy to figure out which slots are in use. You do risk
> > > breaking your system by pruning the wrong package..
> >
> > Ok, yes, slot deps sounds like what I'm after here.  Is there a
> > portage command I can run to see which packages are installed in more
> > than one slot?  I'm having disk space problems on my laptop.
>
> emerge -Pp
>
> Though you should never run that without --pretend cause that will destroy
> your system.

I personally prefer 'equery list --duplicates' from my previous post. It
takes up little space. But I guess it's a taste thing, and you need the
gentoolkit package.

Just wanted to state an alternative :).

-- 
HTH,
Marc Joliet