Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-23 Thread Jarry
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

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-23 Thread John Campbell
On 12/23/2011 12:33 AM, Jarry wrote: 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... I believe the base, default pager

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Jarry
Hi, after updating my system I tried emerge --depclean as recommended by portage, and I received this warning: -- Calculating dependencies... done! Calculating removal order... !!! 'sys-apps/less' (virtual/pager) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is a part of system? Jarry I didn't like it either so I've been adding it to /var/lib/portage/world just to stop it. I've seen this on one machine or another for 6

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Jarry
On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote: Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is a part of system? I didn't like it either so I've been adding it to /var/lib/portage/world just to stop it. I've seen this on one machine or another for 6 months to a year I think. Some time ago

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:58:32 +0100 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote: Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is a part of system? I didn't like it either so I've been adding it to /var/lib/portage/world just to stop it. I've seen

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 Dec 2011 19:07:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:58:32 +0100 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote: Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is a part of system? I didn't like it either so I've been adding

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 23, 2011 2:42 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 22 Dec 2011 19:07:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:58:32 +0100 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote: Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Jarry
On 23-Dec-11 2:12, Pandu Poluan wrote: 'eselect pager list' and 'eselect editor list' will show what alternatives are available (with a write-in candidate support). # eselect pager show PAGER variable in profile: /usr/bin/less # more /etc/env.d/99pager # Configuration file for eselect #

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:43:33 +0100 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 23-Dec-11 2:12, Pandu Poluan wrote: 'eselect pager list' and 'eselect editor list' will show what alternatives are available (with a write-in candidate support). # eselect pager show PAGER variable in profile:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Denis Buzdalov
Because eselect's setting of pager does not correlate with emerge's world file. You should add less to the world file e.g. by running emerge --noreplace less. 2011/12/23 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com: On 23-Dec-11 2:12, Pandu Poluan wrote: 'eselect pager list' and 'eselect editor list' will show