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From: Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" wants to unmerge app-editors/nano (part of system)
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:47:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E13322D.6030801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+edPW_tH6yfj0dgTxj=jXZ2CvvHoM2z-PcRZUsXFRY42Aw@mail.gmail.com>

On 04-Jul-11 19:03, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Jarry<mr.jarry@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> obelix ~ # emerge --depclean
>> <cut>
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>>> Calculating removal order...
>>
>> !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile.
>> !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
>
>     This was discussed awhile back. Check the archives for the complete
> thread. It was maybe a month ago.

Sorry, did not notice it. I'm having this problem just a day or two...

>     You won't cause any problems by removing nano although you won't be
> able to edit if that's the only editor on your system. I've done
> emerge -C nano for awhile. seen the same message when removing it, and
> then after that no problems.

But this is the only editor installed on my system, so I do not want
to loose it. BTW, I have 7 nearly identical boxes, all of them updated
at the same time, the same architecture and use-flags, but only on
one of them portage wants to unmerge nano. That's strange...

Jarry



      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-04 16:29 [gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" wants to unmerge app-editors/nano (part of system) Jarry
2011-07-04 16:45 ` Andre Lucas Falco
2011-07-04 17:03 ` Mark Knecht
2011-07-05 15:47   ` Jarry [this message]

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