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 Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 10:26 am Post subject: emerge clean killed important files ... |
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Hi,
After doing a I just typed , and afterwards all (!) my gnome icons were gone and some libs required by gnumeric.
Is this a bug or a feature? Did I do anything wrong or some right thing just terribly stupid? 
Anyway, Im recompiling now ... |
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delta407
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"emerge gnumeric -u" will update gnumeric, not uninstall it. You want "emerge unmerge gnumeric" for that.
I think "emerge clean" removes old versions of software, but the thing is, newer versions may use the same filenames, so unmerging the old version would also unmerge some of the newer version's files, resulting in bad things happening. What were you trying to do? |
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Naan Yaar
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Emerge checks file md5sum of installed files in order to ensure that it removes only the version it installed for that package. So, emerge clean should work OK. One issue may be emerging an old package after emerging a newer version. This can cause "interesting" issues if filenames are the same.
| delta407 wrote: | "emerge gnumeric -u" will update gnumeric, not uninstall it. You want "emerge unmerge gnumeric" for that.
I think "emerge clean" removes old versions of software, but the thing is, newer versions may use the same filenames, so unmerging the old version would also unmerge some of the newer version's files, resulting in bad things happening. What were you trying to do? |
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