From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HM53D-0003CX-BF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:19:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1RGIOwe017908; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:18:24 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1RGDirw012725 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:13:45 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F8C8342F for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:57:11 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NCn-pc+9ufyq for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:57:02 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9105F83423 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:57:02 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:50:55 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to remove required packages Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:47:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <5bdc1c8b0702250950m5516a81bxab47a163d12dce19@mail.gmail.com> <200702262143.09955.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200702262153.24501.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> In-Reply-To: <200702262153.24501.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702271747.16022.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Feb 2007 15:50:55.0140 (UTC) FILETIME=[10BF3640:01C75A87] X-Archives-Salt: fd80451a-0367-4b88-ab4a-d3c8fde4cb54 X-Archives-Hash: c555ce661df2519225016451f31bb19f On Monday 26 February 2007, Bo =D8rsted 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=20 "when I run emerge =2D-depclean wants remove packages that would break dependencies" Presumably he knows his system well enough to know that the packages in=20 question are necessary. I probably worded my statement wrongly as well. As written it implies=20 that --depclean erroneously wants to remove things that should remain=20 according to information in the ebuilds. I should have said --depclean=20 wants to remove things that the OP would prefer to remain. alan =2D-=20 Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list