Whenever I install a stage3 snapshow I get this when running --declean tu1 ~ # emerge -c -a --with-bdeps=y !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. app-editors/nano: 2.3.2 none none All selected packages: app-editors/nano-2.3.2 Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No] Seems to me that anything in the system profile should not be removed by default when running --depclean
That means nothing on your system depends on app-editors/nano (which isn't in any profile itself) including virtual/editor (which _is_ in base/packages and thus in your profile). Do you happen to have a replacement editor installed? Then you don't need nano.
Not my system, in the image/stage I installed from gentoo. One would not expect that --depclean will remove stuff from the system profile, I don't depend on lots of stuff in the image but these are not removed.
This report is interesting. Haven't heard this resounding in the halls; I'm unsure about this being a bug. You can inspect further to see why Portage is not consider app-editors/nano: - Is something else that satisfies virtual/editor selected? (Or present?) (See usr/portage/virtual/editor/editor-0.ebuild for a list) If so, then this isn't a bug; Portage keeps the selected package, whilst removing non-selected packages even if listed before the selected package. - Is app-editors/nano masked somehow; or, is it unavailable on your arch? This could be a reason that it doesn't see it; if so, it is also not a bug but you could opt to do a keyword and/or stabilization request to make it available. If it's neither of the above, then it might be a bug; in which case we need more details about the system, the command as well as what has been done in general: - Can you comment with `emerge --info` output? - Is `emerge -c -a --with-bdeps=y` the complete command you have executed? - Which stage3 does this happen with? How do I reproduce this if I want to try? Thank you in advance.
(In reply to Tom Wijsman (TomWij) from comment #3) > This report is interesting. > > Haven't heard this resounding in the halls; I'm unsure about this being a > bug. > > You can inspect further to see why Portage is not consider app-editors/nano: > > - Is something else that satisfies virtual/editor selected? (Or present?) > > (See usr/portage/virtual/editor/editor-0.ebuild for a list) > > If so, then this isn't a bug; Portage keeps the selected package, whilst > removing non-selected packages even if listed before the selected package. Right, I got app-editors/vim installed too so this is why portage wants to remove nano. Not a bug then -> INVALID
