Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009 13:00:41 Krzysztof Poc wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I found that "emerge --depclean" removes the packages that are necessary
>  for my system: gcc-4.1.2
> font-cursor-misc
> font-misc-misc
> 
> I have also gcc-3.4.6-r2 installed. It does not remove gcc-3.4.6-r2.
> After unmerging gcc-4.1.2 I cannot compile anything of course.
> After unmerging font-misc-misc I can't see Polish fonts in Xterm.
> 
> I don't know how to solve this problem.
> Should I make those packages more valuable to the system ?
> How can I do that.
> Is my xorg server incorrectly configured. I have xorg 1.5 with HAL.
> My system does not use any xorg.conf file. It autodetects configuration at
>  startup. When migrating to xorg 1.5 I did not do any special steps to
>  configure and install any Polish fonts. I only made the modifications to
>  support the Polish keyboard layout.

Put such problematic packages into world, eg

emerge -n gcc:4.1

and a version of gcc in that slot will  always be present till you manually 
remove it.

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