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`. -- Bo Andresen
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