Bug 230053

Summary:	depclean should not remove libs that are linked against by packages required by world
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Petteri Räty (RETIRED) <betelgeuse>
Component:	Core - Dependencies	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	210077

Description Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-29 16:39:50 UTC

19:33 < Betelgeuse> zmedico: Shouldn't depclean not allow removing libs that are linked against with the new framework?
19:34 < Betelgeuse> zmedico: For some reason I have bins like mv and id linked against libselinux which just got cleaned by depclean
19:35 < zmedico> right, that's a bug. I should fix that soon.
19:37 < Betelgeuse> zmedico: is it on file?
19:37 < zmedico> no, not yet
19:38 < zmedico> feel free to file one if you like :)
19:39 < zmedico> I've had it on my todo list for a couple weeks now but didn't get to it yet
19:39 < zmedico> I should just get it over with soon

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2008-07-23 07:58:01 UTC

This is fixed in 2.2_rc2.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-05-14 08:58:59 UTC

In coming releases, the emerge --depclean-lib-check option will now be ignored when FEATURES=preserve-libs is enabled, since any libraries that have consumers will simply be preserved when the providing packages are unmerged (as requested in bug 286714).