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 :-) :-)
