Hello all! I am a Gentoo n00b. I have question about what the 'expected behaviour' is/should be when removing packages under Gentoo package management. So I read this document:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?style=printable&full=1#book_part2 And it says, to remove software, use 'emerge --unmerge'. Cool, yeah that seems to do what I expect... So, I have a package madwifi-ng, which contains some kernel modules. I want to emerge --unmerge that package, because I want to make those drivers go away. That seems to go well, as when I search for it in portage it show all non-installed and stuff: prometheus ~ # emerge --search madwifi-ng Searching... [ Results for search key : madwifi-ng ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * net-wireless/madwifi-ng Latest version available: 0.9.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 3,403 kB Homepage: http://www.madwifi-project.org/ Description: Next Generation driver for Atheros based IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN cards License: atheros-hal || ( BSD GPL-2 ) Buuut, there are still kernel modules there, which are owned by that package: prometheus ~ # ls -lah /lib/modules/2.6.28-gentoo-r5/net/ath_pci.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77K May 3 20:43 /lib/modules/2.6.28-gentoo-r5/net/ath_pci.ko prometheus ~ # and of course they still load. Sooo, my question. What is the expected behaviour here? Are the ebuilds intended to maintain knowledge of the files they put on a system, so they can remove the binaries when --unmerge'd? Are kernel modules handled differently because of the possibility of damaging a working system? Thanks! -- Matt
