On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 21:55 +0100, Bernhard Auzinger wrote:
> > 'unmerge'ing those you don't want will clean up portage's database of
> > installed packages.  Doesn't remove /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/
> > though or old kernels from /boot/.  Seems that manual deletion is
> > required here.
> 
> That's because one may still want to use a compiled kernel after the removal 
> of the kernel sources.
> 

Actually, it's because portage only removes what portage installed,
which is the source, in this case.  It didn't install the modules (you
did, by running make modules_install), so it won't remove them.

Daniel

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