On 6/18/21 8:13 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 6/18/21 6:01 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >> If emerge --depclean fails to resolve any dependencies, then it will >> now suggest emerge @unsatisfied-deps as the simplest possible >> solution, and will also suggest to unmerge @unavailable where >> appropriate at the end: >> >> $ emerge --depclean >> >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to >> * the following required packages not being installed: >> * >> * virtual/cdrtools pulled in by: >> * app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.4 >> * >> * Have you forgotten to resolve unsatisfied dependencies prior to >> * depclean? The simplest possible command for this purpose is as >> * follows: >> * >> * emerge @unsatisfied-deps > > It turns out that @unsatisfied-deps is often unsuitable here because it > pulls in a bunch of @installed packages, when you really want to use > @world as the source of truth.
The underlying reason is the same as the reason that we've never used @installed updates as a substitute for @world updates. It just doesn't work, because @installed is polluted in comparison to @world. -- Thanks, Zac
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