after upgrading from *.19 I get now : n22 ~ # emerge --depclean --ask --quiet !!! 'sys-apps/less' (virtual/pager) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. sys-apps/less: 441 none none All selected packages: sys-apps/less-441 Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No] No Quitting. Reproducible: Always n22 ~ # emerge --info portage Portage 2.1.10.20 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.39.4 i686) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39.4-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1::toralf sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo betagarden toralf ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache compress-build-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict test unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.leaseweb.com/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.dkm.cz/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j 3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/betagarden /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr classic cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvb dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam fastbuild fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif git gmp gphoto2 gpm gtk hyphenation iconv ipv6 java jpeg kde kipi kqemu kvm lastfm lcms ldap libnotify lirc logrotate mad mbox mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl phonon plasma png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 rdesktop readline sdl semantic-desktop session sieve spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thinkpad tiff tk transparent-proxy truetype udev unicode usb vaapi vim-syntax vnc vorbis wmf x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" LIRC_DEVICES="devinput inputlirc" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.20 was built with the following: USE="(consolekit) (ipc) (policykit) test -build -doc -epydoc -python2 -python3 (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl"
It's an intentional dependency change, from bug 384663. Until something like bug 283587 is implemented (so that eselect pager will pull in your selected pager), you'll have to add less to world if you want to keep it: emerge --noreplace sys-apps/less
I check the portage changelog on upgrade and read the mentioned bugs if I think they might affect my system, as I did with the mentioned #384663 here, so I understood (and approve, since I happen to prefer most) portage losing its dependency even before I merged the update. What I don't understand is why depclean is trying to remove something that it claims is in the system profile. If it's in the system profile, why is it even trying to remove it? If it's not in the system profile, why is it saying it is? As best I can tell, the issue may be that it's virtual/pager that's actually in the system profile, not less, but that less is one of its alternate dependencies. But still, if no other alternate deb of the virtual is installed, it should refuse to unmerge it, and if one IS installed (as most is, here), it shouldn't gripe about less being in the system set, since it's not, and dependency of the virtual that is, is still fulfilled with most. So IMO the bug isn't that depclean wants to remove less (at least, as long as another pager is installed), the bug is that depclean is complaining that less is part of the system set when it's clearly not, and there's an alternate dependency filling the need for the virtual package that IS part of the system set. Either depclean needs to explain that somehow (that's a tough one to do succinctly), or it shouldn't complain at all if an alternate dependency is already installed (arguably easier), just do the unmerge without the complaint. (FWIW, I'm running the 2.2.0_alpha series here, just upgraded to alpha60, but I guess the problem is in in the legacy/stable series too, so it doesn't really matter.) Duncan
(In reply to comment #2) > So IMO the bug isn't that depclean wants to remove less (at least, as long as > another pager is installed), the bug is that depclean is complaining that less > is part of the system set when it's clearly not, and there's an alternate > dependency filling the need for the virtual package that IS part of the system > set. Yes, that's what bug 375115 is about.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > So IMO the bug is [depclean virtuals handling]. > > Yes, that's what bug 375115 is about. Thanks. You are correct. Duplicate, then?
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > (In reply to comment #2) > > > So IMO the bug is [depclean virtuals handling]. > > > > Yes, that's what bug 375115 is about. > > Thanks. You are correct. Duplicate, then? I guess so. I'll make this one depend on bug 375115 for now, so it will show up in more search results and hopefully we'll get fewer duplicates that way.
sry, you was right. I forgot to run env-update and source /etc/profile after unmerging (how stupid) Now man works again for sure.
obsolete
