[gentoo-user] Re: Math symbols with emerge -C

Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o> writes:

> But that's totally irrelevant as to whether you have other versions of
> gentoo-sources installed.  All that probably indicates is that you *had*
> them installed at one time, and probably unmerged them.  The directories
> likely still exist because other files exist in those directories that
> were not part of the package (object files, .config files, depend files,
> etc). When you unmerge a package it only removes the files belonging to
> that package.  If a directory was created by a package, but is not empty
> when that package removes it's files, then portage does not remove that
> directory (for fear of deleting something you wanted).  If you don't
> want it then, e.g.
>
>   # ls -a /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 |less
>   # rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8

OK again.  I hadn't soaked in that what was in those directories was
debris from builds and not the installed files.

Thanks

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