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From: KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:02:24
Message-Id: 49D50BBC.4080409@konstantinhansen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work? by Albert Hopkins
1 Albert Hopkins schrieb:
2 > You should *never* use --prune. It's only there for people looking for
3 > interesting ways to break their systems. The fact that it didn't remove
4 > anything indicates that maybe you don't have multiple slots of a package
5 > installed and you just got "lucky".
6 >
7 >
8 Hi,
9 are you saying, that --prune is broken? I do use it sometimes. It is
10 also in the handbook (like here [1]). I always use it together with
11 --ask but never had any problems.
12 kh
13
14 [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml#doc_chap9

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work? Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>