Re: [gentoo-user] Before doing something wrong

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Friday 14 July 2006 20:01, Sascha Hlusiak wrote:
> Nope, -C is the short for --unmerge. -c would be --clean.

Correct.

> And --clean cleans a package, that means when you have two versions of a
> non slotted ebuild installed. It automatically happens after you upgrade
> a package, first the new version is installed parallel to the existing
> one, then the old one is "cleaned out".
>
> You should never need a manual --clean :) But it should never break
> anything, which --unmerge can.

This is absolutely false. --clean has no effect on unslotted packages. It is 
equivalent to --prune except that it only removes old slots if nothing 
depends on them. Read `man emerge`.

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Bo Andresen