Bug 52280 – emerge -p depclean wants to remove 3 packages: modutils acl attr, I guess they're needed

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description juri 2004-05-28 10:24:20 UTC]

Emerge -p depclean wants to remove modutils, attr and acl. Well I did it and borked my system. I guess they are core packages so they shouldn't appear in emerge depclean. I read the warning of depclean and learnt the lesson, of course, but it would be better if this was fixed.
One more thing: 
I emerged tuxracer

emerge tuxracer

[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/tcl-8.3.4
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/tk-8.3.4-r1
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/smpeg-0.4.4-r4
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/sdl-mixer-1.2.5-r1
[ebuild  N    ] games-arcade/tuxracer-0.61-r3

but it didn't work and so removed it:

emerge -C tuxracer

then I tried emerge -p depclean, but the output showed only

[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/smpeg-0.4.4-r4
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/sdl-mixer-1.2.5-r1

no trace of the other 2 dependencies. I was pretty sure they that tk and tcl 
weren't needed anymore and removed them.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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# emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/
ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/
http://212.219.247.20/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/
http://212.219.247.21/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif
gpm gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg
mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime
readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 2004-05-28 11:19:53 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48195 ***