From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Re0bc-00061b-N3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:35:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 241C521C07E; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D26E21C06F for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:34:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekd41 with SMTP id d41so9123845eek.40 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:34:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Rl1RZYhzrV8W4mGJCrlFDLhsY15KzEpd/mhNcQSIWZ0=; b=jaO4y9TMqdgtW7P/UYq7nWU0GH1b4p2/85WqLmHrwemR9WYSwF7nTCtewtWD1r8Hvp itLCP4upcHiP1pth3QqFaC/tJIc6yeMqSDpoS8w8e+yfv0L0qGiSGpBIoo4CD2URs4XD LV3skFlKQa9lwiA/lKhtHQAys9AOXw/SdDaVo= Received: by 10.213.108.71 with SMTP id e7mr602248ebp.23.1324629289810; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:34:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.0.11] ([88.151.74.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 47sm877165eez.6.2011.12.23.00.34.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:34:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EF43CBD.7050500@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:33:01 +0100 From: Jarry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system References: <4EF37707.9010905@gmail.com> <4EF37DD8.40806@gmail.com> <20111222210702.27eb4b9a@rohan.example.com> <201112221937.51297.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4EF43125.1050209@gmail.com> <20111223094740.553b5476@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20111223094740.553b5476@rohan.example.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1e6d3e2a-52f1-4553-aa89-b87cb56ac1f2 X-Archives-Hash: 138c4bdb2b317070d6fe47035f1d02e5 On 23-Dec-11 8:47, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> # eselect pager show >> PAGER variable in profile: >> /usr/bin/less >> >> emerge --depclean >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> >>> Calculating removal order... >> !!! 'sys-apps/less' (virtual/pager) 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 8 >> >> I have "less" set as my pager, and despite of that portage >> wants to uninstall it. What am I missing? > > It's not in world. But it was the same in the last week, and yet portage could live with it. Why it suddenly wants to uninstall something that is part of system profile? And at the same time it says it might damage my system. Really nice... Honestly, I do not understand this at all. Things worked for years, now suddenly cause problems, and we call it "progress". What is going to be it tomorrow? bash, tar, or grep? Jarry -- _______________________________________________________________ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.