From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 258FF139337 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2021 11:54:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0007DE09FD; Mon, 2 Aug 2021 11:54:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lf1-x136.google.com (mail-lf1-x136.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::136]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51D37E09AB for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2021 11:54:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lf1-x136.google.com with SMTP id bq29so7636881lfb.5 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2021 04:54:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=l4uCnWXU64LUTxWsGtsWTO0l8fz1sjjGPHc91Ixa/oU=; b=kGXp7bkLuAG7zVYDsOLfzISzcP8hBmlxqYhqSKuAOL5TqWS+81JPW7aCiaK5Bgdkn7 sKWB0MsNnvMRcpbHUBVAo42g2Jm/4wzvPmz77f0wWhMgBXeE1iMg4zzkZC6lWPRbbkd6 dw20TGtqLGP5/QTO4GrP2Thd6SNccZJQ5HlOoifXAJWyq0FlYaz8CDHWpvr6jh7QcM9Q iSk5cLEiDNKdqXTAEqXJyAZcM5qoU7VrtAQ3UOcoljgMAtTQft4Ukm/UfcPrKkr+rGNx 5az7w33pfEeTKTdQSUe047Zjz9H6daOuy18YqHf5lHoZWjGDoxL1GGpknNNUSLc4joz+ 62zg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=l4uCnWXU64LUTxWsGtsWTO0l8fz1sjjGPHc91Ixa/oU=; b=UrFoGGUPBSR/JM78/lQnzmvRLMDJ439gVZ7NflCzslS/JSfEcRSOUNzTKQIeG2GjUX oFTwLXLzPiZsdD2OB2YX5GLBgeNFdgfcGXwO7IPQbK2E1GKHGUh+KxfwwdR5jFkguEL8 qJGqH5acmdx/sEM3o3kNb1XfNb1OikjinbJFBLuWZuNWtJwBukYbvuVyuJiCCK1xb+Fc qrGiWDDid3cgTDQNeNp/mTirvByyRf/0oNrguEOEZEsIXqFK0YjJR/NojRoS/zJB/pnU q6GaSphvE1JCG6e/VxZOISirFuXOCIYKSU6/ETpXuP37tXFS2A09SPUMHXI/AjORcdvi HhIw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5307KqNsPhUFwsBWAekWPX++tQvF8XdIik2hdLpxG1ssZYjbg8M/ VM3o5Xtx+HYLWcC+S3qqvVrEpGhwCunwbqhdwvr6A7hf X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwZcZWP7IT4aZ9wKOLHaMyZkIWitg6jpJF6Md2Pn/TNAIr6KX/W3RPS5fCUWon2DaUMlWZG6FzU1DH2wS2OZiI= X-Received: by 2002:ac2:5d42:: with SMTP id w2mr2671827lfd.308.1627905254990; Mon, 02 Aug 2021 04:54:14 -0700 (PDT) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20210725100344.34490089@digimed.co.uk> <60FD5869.2050406@youngman.org.uk> <24831.53669.190993.493758@tux.local> <24839.49752.555814.917077@tux.local> In-Reply-To: <24839.49752.555814.917077@tux.local> From: Arve Barsnes Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 13:54:07 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes! To: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 69349013-f8fc-4531-8ecc-120618a2d7e9 X-Archives-Hash: 5f8a5da23224c7499715cf98f8a4ef72 On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 at 12:01, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > This caused me to make a mental note to always pipe the output from com- > mand "emerge --depclean" into "less". However, this didn't work. There > was only a single package to be removed causing "less" to simply termin- > ate without further action, but "emerge" just stalled and never asked me > whether or not to continue. > > Any thoughts about how to solve this? Depends what you were trying to solve when piping to less. I would run --depclean --ask or --depclean --pretend. Personally, I often have packages installed temporarily with --oneshot, so I run depclean with pretend, and then just emerge -C Regards, Arve