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From: Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:56:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090123165639.GA21611@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10901230802r57a47db3x5ed552afdd6ec23a@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:02:27AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked:
> One of my systems with totally empty package.* files wants to emerge
> hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 as it should, but --depclean wants to:

How do you determine this? (I mean the "as it should" part?)

Are you running ~ or stable?

> >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
> 
> sys-kernel/hardened-sources
> selected: 2.6.25-r13
> protected: none
> omitted: 2.6.27-r3
> 
> If I do that, emerge world just wants to emerge it again.  Does anyone
> know how to fix this?

If you remove it, what does emerge -pvt say? 

W

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-23 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-23 16:02 [gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop Grant
2009-01-23 16:56 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2009-01-23 17:14   ` Grant
2009-01-23 17:49     ` Willie Wong
2009-01-23 17:56       ` Grant

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