Why does depclean "want" to remove the pwdb package? Should I just
put it in the world so that depclean goes past it?
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # emerge --depclean --ask
*** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is
*** WARNING *** recommended to use a tool such as `revdep-rebuild` (from
*** WARNING *** app-portage/gentoolkit) in order to detect such breakage.
*** WARNING ***
*** WARNING *** Also study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious
*** WARNING *** mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always
*** WARNING *** be kept. They can be manually added to this set with
*** WARNING *** `emerge --noreplace <atom>`. Packages that are listed in
*** WARNING *** package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by
*** WARNING *** depclean, even if they are part of the world set.
*** WARNING ***
*** WARNING *** As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages
*** WARNING *** unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a
*** WARNING *** consequence, it is often necessary to run
*** WARNING *** `emerge --update --newuse --deep world` prior to depclean.
Calculating dependencies... done!
These are the packages that would be unmerged:
sys-libs/pwdb
selected: 0.62
protected: none
omitted: none
sys-kernel/livecd-kernel
selected: 1
protected: none
omitted: none
'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.
Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No] n
Quitting.
Packages installed: 565
Packages in world: 14
Packages in system: 55
Unique package names: 565
Required packages: 563
Number to remove: 2
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # date
Sun Jul 15 04:44:29 UTC 2007
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ #
pwdb: <http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?pwdb-0.62>
thanks,
Thufir
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