On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I just ran "emerge -p --depclean" and the only thing it wants to remove
> is
> > gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12.  So my system's pretty clean, but I'm quite
> > puzzled with this result.
> >
> > I have 5 versions of gentoo-sources installed, and the one it wants to
> ditch
> > is the one I'm actually using.  I can understand why it wouldn't care
> about
> > that, but why not:
> >    2.6.31-r10 which is no longer in the tree
> >    any of the others, which are marked in exactly the same way as the
> >       victim it picked?  Some are older, and some are newer than this
> >       victim.  What gives?
> >
> > I'm just wondering about how --depclean picked on this one of the five?
>
>
> Look in /var/lib/portage/world and see if you are protecting the
> versions you think it should be cleaning but it isn't.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mark
>
> I looked there, and there's
  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
so I would expect them all to be protected.  Why the exception?

++ kevin


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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