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From: KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Packages with Portage
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:14:11
Message-Id: 49FECDFF.8020202@konstantinhansen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Packages with Portage by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick schrieb:
2 > On Mon, 4 May 2009 10:45:00 +0100, Matt Causey wrote:
3 >
4 >> Sooo, my question. What is the expected behaviour here? Are the
5 >> ebuilds intended to maintain knowledge of the files they put on a
6 >> system, so they can remove the binaries when --unmerge'd? Are kernel
7 >> modules handled differently because of the possibility of damaging a
8 >> working system?
9 >
10 > The latter. The user programs will be gone but the kernel modules stay.
11 > With more "normal" packages, the only files that are not removed are
12 > those in CONFIG_PROTECTed directories and those that have been modified
13 > since installation.
14 >
15 >
16
17 Anyway you also might want to run an emerge --depclean -av after
18 unmerging. Maybe there are othere programs not needed anymore at now.
19
20 kh