From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:07:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111222210702.27eb4b9a@rohan.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EF37DD8.40806@gmail.com>
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:58:32 +0100
Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >>
> >> Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is
> >> a part of system?
> >
> > I didn't like it either so I've been adding it to
> > /var/lib/portage/world just to stop it. I've seen this on one
> > machine or another for 6 months to a year I think.
>
> Some time ago emerge wanted to uninstall "nano" - part of system.
> Now "less". I just tried to update one more comp, and guess what?
>
> # emerge --depclean
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> >>> Calculating removal order...
>
> !!! 'sys-fs/udev' (virtual/dev-manager) is part of your system
> profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
>
> >>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting...
> >>> (Control-C to abort)...
> Press Ctrl-C to Stop in: 10 9
>
> LOL, what the hell is going on? Porgage went crazy or what?
This has been in unstable for many months now. Basically there's now a
virtual for $EDITOR and $PAGER so you can pick the one you want. If you
don't pick one, portage will take the default and --depclean is likely
to remove the others that are not in world.
This was all discussed to death months ago :-)
Just add your editor and pager of choice to world and continue as
normal. It's not a big issue - you already know you want less and have
no intention of removing it, so just add it like any other package.
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-22 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-22 18:29 [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system Jarry
2011-12-22 18:38 ` Mark Knecht
2011-12-22 18:58 ` Jarry
2011-12-22 19:07 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-12-22 19:37 ` Mick
2011-12-23 1:12 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-23 7:43 ` Jarry
2011-12-23 7:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-23 8:33 ` Jarry
2011-12-23 9:30 ` John Campbell
2011-12-23 7:51 ` Denis Buzdalov
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