On Monday, August 1 at 12:41 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
> On Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:02:22 AM Florian Philipp wrote: > > @system used to contain portage. It doesn't by default, anymore. If > you > > do `emerge -pv --depclean`, portage should try to remove itself. > Just > > add it to @world by doing `emerge --noreplace portage` > > It doesn't try this on my system Yeah, I don't think that statement was entirely accurate. Deplean "normally" will not try to remove portage, because it satisfies the virtual/package-manager requirement, which is in @system. If, however, you have portage and another package satisfying virtual/package-manager installed, and the other package was in your world file, but portage wasn't then depclean *would* remove portage. This is the recent behavior change, which is why some people were surprised suddenly when nano or less or insert_your_favorite_virtual_here was suddenly wanting to get unmerged by --depclean.
