Bug 371621

Summary:	emerge -va --depclean tries to remove products that are part of the system profile
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Tanktalus
Component:	Core - Dependencies	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tanktalus 2011-06-14 13:27:02 UTC

Using portage 2.2.0_alpha41

Running depclean gets me the warning:

!!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile.
!!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.

If it's part of the system, shouldn't depclean be already taking into consideration that it's a dependency?  If I explicitly ask to remove nano directly, then the warning is valid.  However, I would think the system requirements would, by default, be part of the dependency tree checked by depclean.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2011-06-14 15:06:07 UTC

Expected behavior, read the duplicate bug or the portage FAQ for more info.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/faq.xml (question #4)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 370295 ***