688052 – 'emerge --depclean' exits silently when given a wildcard that matches nothing

Bug 688052 - 'emerge --depclean' exits silently when given a wildcard that matches nothing

Summary: 'emerge --depclean' exits silently when given a wildcard that matches nothing

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2019-06-14 14:09 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified:	2023-11-11 04:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

See Also:	409647 851750 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.