it can be very useful and resolv a lot of pain in the ass problem if the "emerge unmerge" will warn the user that some dependencies will be broken. the functions has to search in the DB for RDEPEND dependencies that match the package to be unmerged and display the name of the installed packet that need it. only with a --force flag the operation can be completed if there are pending dependencies (i've searched the bug tracking system but didn't find a request like this and I'm wondering why noone has asked for it...) bye
I see the same problem with emerg, but with another solution. I think unmerge should unmerge all ebuild that are dependant from the one named. If you want a warn this should be done with --pretend (to see what will be removed). If you very want to remove it and break dependancies so a --force
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2938 ***
