Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Mon, 4 May 2009 10:45:00 +0100, Matt Causey wrote: > >> 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? > > The latter. The user programs will be gone but the kernel modules stay. > With more "normal" packages, the only files that are not removed are > those in CONFIG_PROTECTed directories and those that have been modified > since installation. > >
Anyway you also might want to run an emerge --depclean -av after unmerging. Maybe there are othere programs not needed anymore at now. kh
