-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Allan Gottlieb wrote: <snip> > I have obtained the sources to e2fsprogs, e2fsprogs-libs, ss, com_error > via emerge --fetchonly. > Am I correct in believing that emerge --unmerge will NOT remove the > sources. > > thanks, > allan
You are correct that emerge --unmerge will not remove the sources. There are some 'clean-up' utilities that will, but emerge will not. I agree with the people suggesting the quickpkg to backup the existing packages. The emerge --fetchonly command is the way to go here, since depending on the USE flags you used to build wget, there may be a deep dependency on com_err. Regards, Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJJB3K/AAoJEIAhA8M9p9DA7SoP+QHcMANAlLDJs5SLkAG0oRx0 9PEDyCnAHykC5Mfo8tEO3JRBu6Jt6IL+/O/v8LE4o2Q3tWurHDTFmSlCUWKgi77Q /xZRY0LtU1690mF0NPsolo1IJPKPloIdUj3xkM7nMJVHOCuMrzISN8aG6PY0za8r wdR+J07BN0BgL4KxLlTPYq37TNVQ0e/p+nv5ThMV40yWRmi6uSAd5406tvLrSY6n JiW8gc4XqSoO4NvKkZ/P81hRjNx+llIaxxVxD8e+ELnTz6EwTNX0WaY5qIvO7oGB BBgjR/2Y0fve4j5Fh7yMwTZvdrTF2W9T2DufsuYIavco6hGOAwPOarxfasIJzVTm pjt3BcX/SqnQHrcS01O5gYyaO40x2jOBxq5OwaFenibQ2PEp45g47EAnun3joRpf LyxfVXpzQXbm6RKHyeMEPVEJD1mcDgCuJb2DmTSm4MNwyvIm6nTvS7CJGl10C8aT 7xqPOmQyS4UF5DprFaXtuV1gkpJNmsYXVoSANeRWZijN4DXCEtDwld0fOvTAmjod eRdR0kFdxf2ybbiqsWchqgdmegMqaVR+DBzdiJWFtvaepSpOjeik5T4xTph7csu/ zQI9/Wyru+2KrP44VgHGeJKBrG9ji/NliomRu4hjklKi0Hbd29N0biUJw5eJv/CD MiuUQwCipH/joPS/0neK =/LHj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----