On Friday 23 February 2007, Grant wrote: > > > It is true then that emerge --depclean never unmerges slotted packages? > > > > Just how would portage know that an old slot is no longer needed? Just > > because a newer version is installed doesn't mean it's been compiled or > > that the old is no longer needed (you might need to compile some package > > against the old that fails to compile against the new)... > > > > For the more general case slot deps aren't allowed in the tree yet so > > it's not all that easy to figure out which slots are in use. You do risk > > breaking your system by pruning the wrong package.. > > Ok, yes, slot deps sounds like what I'm after here. Is there a > portage command I can run to see which packages are installed in more > than one slot? I'm having disk space problems on my laptop.
emerge -Pp Though you should never run that without --pretend cause that will destroy your system. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
