My guess would be Gentoo's support for multiple versions of gcc.
That would make it very difficult to determine what is removable
and what is not.


* Toby Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-06 20:30:10 +0000]:
> I understand emerge clean is supposed to remove old versions of a package, 
> keeping one per slot. I cant understand why on this system it doesnt want to 
> clean up the two old versions of gcc:
> 
> 
> vrumpet root # emerge clean gcc
> 
>  sys-devel/gcc
>     selected: none
>    protected: 2.95.3-r5 2.95.3-r7 2.95.3-r8
>      omitted: none
> 
> >>> clean: No packages selected for removal.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance

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