Bug 70535

Summary:	emerge --depclean removed dhcpcd
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Timothy Miller <theosib>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor	CC:	dragonheart
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Description Timothy Miller 2004-11-08 21:04:32 UTC

After doing "emerge --depclean", dhcpcd was removed, which it shouldn't have been since so many other things are dependent on it (like apache won't start, and other networking facilities).  I have enough other things that depend on that that I don't think it should have been removed with a depclean.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Chr. Schaefer 2004-11-09 00:02:38 UTC

This happened probably because you updated your profile to 2004.3. I do not understand why dhcpcd is not included in this one, but "emerge dhcpcd" will solve your problem.

I did "echo net-misc/dhcpcd >> /var/lib/portage/world" after updating to 2004.3. This problem has also been discussed in the forums (e.g. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=246862&highlight=dhcpcd).

BTW: Also slocate is removed from the new profile.

Comment 2 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-09 00:55:45 UTC

apache and other networking facilities don't depend on dhcpd (in the ebuild sence of depend). As Chr. said this is probably a change in the profile. After you emerge it now it won't go away next time you change your profile because it has been explicitly emerged.