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slimbim
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 Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 5:02 pm Post subject: do i have to do unmerge everytime i do emerge? |
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after I install something using emerge, do I have to do emerge unmerge to remove old ones? or can I just do emerge and just leave it at that?
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delta407
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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You can add AUTOCLEAN="yes" to /etc/make.conf to have emerge automatically remove old versions when installing new ones.
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rac
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | do I have to do emerge unmerge to remove old ones? |
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Please don't do that. You will be unhappy. Read the section of the emerge man page about the unmerge command. It begins with "WARNING" for a reason. unmerge removes the package you have just so carefully installed.
You are probably talking about "clean" rather than "unmerge", which only removes superseded packages. You don't have to run "clean" every time you merge new software either. You can if you want to, or you can just do it every once in a while, or not at all. The only thing not running it at all will cost you is disk space.
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slimbim
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh ok. Good thing I checked. Thanks!! |
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slimbim
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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What about updating etc? when i emerge something, sometimes it says IMPORTANT: files in etc needs updating.
I know how to do this, emerge gentoolkit and run etc-update. but is it safe to just go ahead and run etc-update and pick 1 to replace the files whenever gentoo tells me i have to update etc?? |
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therobot
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| You should read the file thats going to be replacing the old one, And make sure you want the change, or not. Sometimes things like make.conf will get updated, but it'll erase all your use variables and flags. |
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slimbim
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| since i am a newb, it will be safer to just leave the etc folder untouched? |
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rac
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| slimbim wrote: | | since i am a newb, it will be safer to just leave the etc folder untouched? |
There's really no right answer to this. You could see this and this for a bit more background.
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