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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:57:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312199833.27562.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5691190.4Rxmo3X4p1@eve>



On Monday, August 1 at 12:41 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:

> On Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:02:22 AM Florian Philipp wrote:
> > @system used to contain portage. It doesn't by default, anymore. If
> you
> > do `emerge -pv --depclean`, portage should try to remove itself.
> Just
> > add it to @world by doing `emerge --noreplace portage`
> 
> It doesn't try this on my system

Yeah, I don't think that statement was entirely accurate.  Deplean
"normally" will not try to remove portage, because it satisfies the
virtual/package-manager requirement, which is in @system.

If, however, you have portage and another package satisfying
virtual/package-manager installed, and the other package was in your
world file, but portage wasn't then depclean *would* remove portage.
This is the recent behavior change, which is why some people were
surprised suddenly when nano or less or
insert_your_favorite_virtual_here was suddenly wanting to get unmerged
by --depclean.






      reply	other threads:[~2011-08-01 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-31  4:44 [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world? Stroller
2011-07-31  8:54 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-31 11:08   ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-31 11:38     ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-03 21:44       ` Willie Wong
2011-08-03 22:04         ` Florian Philipp
2011-08-03 22:10         ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-04  7:00           ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-04  7:22             ` Matthew Finkel
2011-08-05  2:15           ` Willie Wong
2011-07-31 12:15     ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-31 12:31       ` Stroller
2011-07-31 12:54         ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-31  9:02 ` Florian Philipp
2011-07-31 12:20   ` Stroller
2011-08-01 10:41   ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-01 11:57     ` Albert Hopkins [this message]

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