Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to remove required packages

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 2/27/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> [ snip lots of useful bacground info]
>
> > > 2. If you never had gnome installed but did have evo installed,
> > > then removed evo, everything looks proper.
> > >
> > > So, let --depclean do it's thing. Then emerge -uND world and run
> > > revder-rebuild to fix anything that remains.
> >
> > Based on my response above should I be doing this? From the info I
> > posted earlier if I emerge -C jasper, as --depclean wants to do, then
> > it seems it will just be emerged again at emerge -DuN world.
> >
> > I'm happy to do it if it's the right thing to do. I'm just not
> > understanding why it should fix things.
>
> You have 15 packages that appear to be problematic, which leaves you
> with two realistic options:
>
> 1. Spend ages tracing each dep down and seeing what gives, or
> 2. Just run emerge --depclean followed by revdep-rebuild and emerge -uND
> world anyway. Sure, it will take some extra compile time, but it will
> also filter out the packages that you actually don't have to worry
> about.
>
> I'd recommend #2, which will hopefully leave us with a much smaller list
> of packages to investigate.
>
> alan
>
>

Hi Alan,
   OK, I preceded to let emerge --depclean do it's job and then ran
revdep-rebuild. It said only samba needed to be rebuilt. When that was
complete everything seems clean and happy. No more deps to clean out,
emerge -DuN world has no work to do and revdep-rebuiild says
everything is cool.

   Thanks to you and Bo for your help so far.

   Now on to solving why Evolution is crashing. Hopefully I can get a
good backtrace.

Thanks,
Mark
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