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From: John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:37:16
Message-Id: m3r23f4ffp.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 04:03:53 -0400,
2 Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >
4 > [1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>]
5 > On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 03:21:52 -0400, John Covici wrote:
6 >
7 > > Thanks, I do need the current sources, lots of packages want to check
8 > > them and the linux directory entry points to the sources, packages are
9 > > always looking in there when I emerge them.
10 >
11 > Put this in /etc/portage/sets.conf
12 >
13 > [kernels]
14 > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
15 > world-candidate = False
16 > files = /usr/src
17 >
18 > Then "emerge -n @kernels"
19 >
20 > Now depclean won't try to remove any kernels, or any other package that
21 > installs files to /usr/src.
22 >
23
24 Thanks, very nice, I had never heard of that.
25
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31 John Covici wb2una
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