nhh221 ~ # emerge -p depclean *** WARNING *** : DEPCLEAN CAN SERIOUSLY IMPAIR YOUR SYSTEM. USE CAUTION. *** WARNING *** : (Cancel: CONTROL-C) -- ALWAYS VERIFY ALL PACKAGES IN THE *** WARNING *** : CANDIDATE LIST FOR SANITY BEFORE ALLOWING DEPCLEAN TO *** WARNING *** : UNMERGE ANY PACKAGES. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : USE FLAGS MAY HAVE AN EXTREME EFFECT ON THE OUTPUT. *** WARNING *** : SOME LIBRARIES MAY BE USED BY PACKAGES BUT ARE NOT *** WARNING *** : CONSIDERED TO BE A DEPEND DUE TO USE FLAG SETTINGS. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : Packages in the list that are desired may be added *** WARNING *** : directly to the world file to cause them to be ignored *** WARNING *** : by depclean and maintained in the future. BREAKAGES DUE *** WARNING *** : TO UNMERGING AN ==IN-USE LIBRARY== MAY BE REPAIRED BY *** WARNING *** : MERGING *** THE PACKAGE THAT COMPLAINS *** ABOUT THE *** WARNING *** : MISSING LIBRARY. Calculating depclean dependencies ... done! >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge: sys-apps/slocate selected: 2.7-r5 protected: none omitted: none app-arch/sharutils selected: 4.2.1-r10 protected: none omitted: none net-misc/dhcpcd selected: 1.3.22_p4-r5 protected: none omitted: none sys-apps/fbset selected: 2.1 protected: none omitted: none >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Packages installed: 564 Packages in world: 147 Packages in system: 65 Unique package names: 559 Required packages: 569 Number to remove: 4 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups doc dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd ethereal f77 fam foomaticdb fortran gdbmgif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib innodb java joystick jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww live mad mbox mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mpeg mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-s ncurses network nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline rtc samba sdl slang snmp spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de"
they have been removed from the default profile.. echo sys-apps/slocate >> /var/lib/portage/world echo net-misc/dhcpcd >> /var/lib/portage/world should fix it
