Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to remove required packages

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Monday 26 February 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2007 20:43:09 Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > You have a bunch of packages that --depclean wants to remove. It
> > looks like they should not be removed.
>
> A bit curious how you've reached that conclusion? Why shouldn't they?

The OP said in his original mail 

"when I run emerge
--depclean wants remove packages that would break dependencies"

Presumably he knows his system well enough to know that the packages in 
question are necessary.

I probably worded my statement wrongly as well. As written it implies 
that --depclean erroneously wants to remove things that should remain 
according to information in the ebuilds. I should have said --depclean 
wants to remove things that the OP would prefer to remain.

alan


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