gentoo errors question

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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If it's just a single package and it didn't get to the merge phase, a
simple rm -rf /var/tmp/portage will get rid of any build files. If any
dependencies were built and you don't want them, you have to delete them
by hand with emerge --unmerge.

Jude DaShiell wrote:
> If you try to build a package in gentoo and the build fails as aresult of 
> an error, how can the remnants be cleaned off the system? This happened on 
> gnopernicus-1.0.4 and if I do get another later version downloaded in the 
> future unless the present mess is cleared off the system I'll likely not 
> be able to do the new download.
> 
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