Bug 97946

Summary:	emerge should list packages that will be affected by a certain unmerge
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Nix N. Nix <nix>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nix N. Nix 2005-07-04 17:30:23 UTC

When performing emerge unmerge <package>, emerge should list all the packages
that require <package>.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type "emerge unmerge" for a given package.
2. A listing of packages that will break as a result of the removal is not given.

Actual Results:  
Such a listing was not given.

Expected Results:  
Such a listing should have been given.

Comment 1 Sven Wegener gentoo-dev

2005-07-04 17:39:36 UTC

I wrote something like this a couple of month ago:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~swegener/patches/portage/emerge.depsafeunmerge.patch

Comment 2 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-17 19:41:14 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6298 ***

Comment 3 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-17 19:43:06 UTC

Dupe'd on wrong bug.

Comment 4 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-17 19:43:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2938 ***