Getting --depclean to leave slotted packages [Solved]

[paulj]

I have just been through my system getting rid of Gnome 3.4, but in the process I have had some fun with emerge --depclean.

Basically I have some cross compilers installed in slots, and although I have a new version installed, I haven't yet had an opportunity to test it so I don't want to loose the slotted version. --depclean seems to want to remove all but the latest version of slotted packages.

The other package I don't want --depclean to play with is the source for the kernel. Again, I have newer versions installed, but I haven't yet compiled them and don't want to loose the source of the currently installed kernel. Is there a way to tell emerge to leave these types of packages alone?

Thanks, and apologies of I missed something in the man file - I did have a good look!

I should clarify - I am using Portage 2.1.11.9.

[krinn]

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-905452-highlight-depclean.html

[khayyam]

paulj ...

what your looking for is --noreplace (-n)

best ... khay

[paulj]

Thanks everyone - that's exactly what I was looking for!