Example: === # emerge -pC gentoo-sources * This action can remove important packages! In order to be safer, use * `emerge -pv --depclean <atom>` to check for reverse dependencies before * removing packages. >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 3.10.7-r1 3.10.17 3.10.25 3.10.32 3.12.13 3.12.20 3.12.21-r1 protected: none omitted: none All selected packages: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.32 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.25 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.12.21-r1 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.7-r1 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.17 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.12.13 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.12.20 >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. === The "All selected packages" line is not directly useful for reuse (e.g. by copy-pasting a few of the listed atoms) as the atoms are lacking a leading "=" If this were added it'd be a lot easier to handle selective depclean. (So it'd change: All selected packages: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.32 to: All selected packages: =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.32 )
Created attachment 378754 [details, diff] Fixes the bug
This is fixed in git.
Released in portage-2.2.12