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On Friday 23 February 2007, Grant wrote: |
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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 |
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> > because a newer version is installed doesn't mean it's been compiled or |
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> > that the old is no longer needed (you might need to compile some package |
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> > against the old 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 |
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> > it's not all that easy to figure out which slots are in use. You do risk |
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> > breaking your 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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emerge -Pp |
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Though you should never run that without --pretend cause that will destroy |
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your system. |
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