Hassled by Haskell Packages

[JustAnother]

After updating my system and running emerge --depclean,
I found your Gentoo Cheat Sheet and ran

[Hu]

An untargeted emerge --depclean can only remove a package if (1) the package is not part of @world and (2) the package is not required by a package that untargeted depclean cannot remove. The posted output could occur if you have installed a Haskell package, added it to @world (or it is required directly or indirectly by something in @world), and the package is no longer in the Portage tree or any overlay. emerge --depclean wants to keep it because it thinks you want or need it. eclean is unhappy because it cannot find the package's ebuild.

A targeted emerge --depclean package can override the check for presence in @world (but not the dependency check).

Your targeted emerge --depclean failed because you tried to remove one specific package, and that particular package is needed by something that was not on the targeted depclean list. You could add --verbose to --depclean to see a list of packages that prohibit the requested removal. You could also try listing all the Haskell packages to remove in a single command line, or try deselecting them all from @world so that an untargeted emerge --depclean can consider removing them.

[davidbryant]

[JustAnother]

I forgot about my previous Haskell hassles, because I tossed pandoc. I seem to remember that I wanted to turn markdown into something else.

Instead I wrote a trivial script to wrap the front and back end of a html file around a call to python markdown, and toss the results into a file and into firefox. This actually works surprisingly well as a five and dime store word processor. It even avoids the endless-parade-of-firefox-tabs problem. Just edit the file in vim, and run the script on the current buffer. Then do an f5 in firefox to re-render the tab.

Maybe I should try to beef this thing up a bit.

[Hu]

[JustAnother]

That would help, but it is almost as easy to hit : then up-search the command line