On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 18:02:55 -0500, Dale wrote:

> > Fair enough. I use standard gentoo-sources but always like to keep at
> > least one previous version available "just in case". I unmerge old
> > versions manually, I have to delete kernel sources manually anyway as
> > emerge only removes the files it installed, leaving all the files
> > created when compiling the kernel.
> >
> >  
> 
> I "borrowed" your method a good while back and do it the same way.  Even
> if I use emerge to remove it, it always leaves cruft behind so I just do
> it manually then tell emerge to remove it from its info. 

When I checked it in the past

rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version
emerge -C gentoo-sources-version

was significantly faster than

emerge -C gentoo-sources-version
rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

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