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 -- Thomas M. Beaudry k8la / ys1ztm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list