[Solved] depclean wants to uninstall 'less'

lyallp · Last edited by lyallp on Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:34 am; edited 1 time in total

emerge --depclean wants to uninstall 'less'

Even though it warns me it's part of the system profile.
Why is portage wanting to remove it even though it knows it shouldn't?
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salahx · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 530

ITs a not a bug, but rather a change in the way portage deals with dependencies. In this case, "less" the depency of a virtual (virtual/pager), if there's at least ONE of options install, any of the alternatives NOT in world or a direct dependency of some other package will be removed by --depclean. In this case, its most likely sys-apps/util-linux - which provides the "more" utility, therefore satifying virtual/pager.

So just do:

lyallp · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:34 am Post subject:

Thanks, it was util-linux that stumped me... I don't have more or most, lv, or vim installed, hence the query.
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RazielFMX · l33t Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 835 Location: NY, USA

What is kind of annoying is that even if you choose less as your pager, depclean still wants to nuke it. I've added it to world, but it would be nice if depclean respected my settings.

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:39 pm Post subject:

The reason this is true is that eselect isn't a Portage tool, but rather a Gentoo administration tool. You could argue that, being a Gentoo-authored tool, Portage should be aware of the settings it makes. However, even if true, that doesn't provide full coverage. One example is gcc-config, which is not a Gentoo tool.

For a little more background information on the Portage behavioral change and why it was done, see --depclean wants to remove nano!

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