Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 18:02:55 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>>> Fair enough. I use standard gentoo-sources but always like to keep at
>>> least one previous version available "just in case". I unmerge old
>>> versions manually, I have to delete kernel sources manually anyway as
>>> emerge only removes the files it installed, leaving all the files
>>> created when compiling the kernel.
>>>
>>>
>> I "borrowed" your method a good while back and do it the same way.  Even
>> if I use emerge to remove it, it always leaves cruft behind so I just do
>> it manually then tell emerge to remove it from its info. 
> When I checked it in the past
>
> rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version
> emerge -C gentoo-sources-version
>
> was significantly faster than
>
> emerge -C gentoo-sources-version
> rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version
>
>


That's what I found out too.  That's why I delete manually first then
tell emerge to.  Plus, you have to delete manually anyway so may as well
save time.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)