Bug 688052

Summary:	'emerge --depclean' exits silently when given a wildcard that matches nothing
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	ajak
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409647 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=851750 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917120
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Description Michał Górny archtester

2019-06-14 14:09:17 UTC

I'm pretty sure this used to work in the past:

# emerge --depclean 'dex-texlive/*'

However, right now it just exits after ~1.5 s with no output.  '--verbose' doesn't help.

Comment 1 Francesco Turco 2019-10-18 14:44:13 UTC

I have sys-apps/portage-2.3.76 and your command works fine on my system.

However please notice there's a typo in your command: it should be "dev-texlive" instead of "dex-texlive".

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2019-10-18 21:33:12 UTC

Indeed, it works when spelled correctly. We should make it show a warning message if a given atom matches nothing.