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Bug 9779 - depclean wants to remove needed packages
Summary: depclean wants to remove needed packages
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)
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Keywords:
: 9941 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-10-27 14:31 UTC by Olivier Crete (RETIRED)
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-10-27 14:31:17 UTC
For some reason, "emerge depclean -p" tells me that it will remove the "ld.so"
and "mailbase" packages which are needed by other packages (sendmail for
mailbase and chktex/gtk-engines-* for ld.so)..
Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-10-27 16:27:38 UTC
ld.so is included in newer glibc's.
Mailbase is probably an old slot or is not used.

emerge -cp mailbase <--- Two versions shown, right?

Reopen if you have more to report.
Comment 2 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-10-27 17:12:16 UTC
I have the latest versions of both mailbase and sendmail...


tester@TesterTop tester $ emerge -cp mailbase

>>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:

 net-mail/mailbase
    selected: none
   protected: 0.00-r4
     omitted: none

>>> clean: No packages selected for removal.

tester@TesterTop tester $ qpkg -q -I mailbase
net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r4 *
DEPENDED ON BY:
        net-mail/sendmail-8.12.6-r1
Comment 3 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-11-04 19:22:52 UTC
now its no longer mailbase... its gnuplot...
depclean wants to remove it
.. but octave needs it...
Comment 4 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-11-17 01:14:38 UTC
I can not reproduce with portage 2.0.44..
Closing
Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-01-08 13:45:05 UTC
*** Bug 9941 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Max Kalika (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-01-08 18:59:31 UTC
I'm not sure this has been resolved:

valkyrie bin # epm -q portage
portage-2.0.46-r4


valkyrie bin # emerge -p depclean
...
Calculating depclean dependencies ... done!

>>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:

 net-mail/mailbase
    selected: 0.00-r4
   protected: none
     omitted: none


valkyrie bin # emerge depclean
(blows away mailbase)


valkyrie bin # emerge -up --deep world | grep mailbase
[ebuild  N   ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r4