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From: Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Before doing something wrong
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:56:51
Message-Id: 44B7DE88.4000408@vista-express.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Before doing something wrong by Sascha Hlusiak
1 Sascha Hlusiak wrote:
2 >> If you installed a program that you no longer need, you can do a emerge
3 >> -C <package name> and it will remove it for you. The -C is the same as
4 >> --clean by the way.
5 >>
6 > Nope, -C is the short for --unmerge. -c would be --clean.
7 >
8 > And --clean cleans a package, that means when you have two versions of a
9 > non slotted ebuild installed. It automatically happens after you upgrade
10 > a package, first the new version is installed parallel to the existing
11 > one, then the old one is "cleaned out".
12 >
13 > You should never need a manual --clean :) But it should never break
14 > anything, which --unmerge can.
15 >
16 >
17 > Regards,
18 > Sascha
19 >
20 >
21
22 That's correct. That shift key sure does make a difference don't it?
23 Still, be careful with what you remove.
24
25 Dale
26 :-) :-)
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