Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" wants to unmerge app-editors/nano (part of system)
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:49:55
Message-Id: 4E13322D.6030801@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" wants to unmerge app-editors/nano (part of system) by Mark Knecht
1 On 04-Jul-11 19:03, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Jarry<mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> obelix ~ # emerge --depclean
4 >> <cut>
5 >> Calculating dependencies... done!
6 >>>>> Calculating removal order...
7 >>
8 >> !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile.
9 >> !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
10 >
11 > This was discussed awhile back. Check the archives for the complete
12 > thread. It was maybe a month ago.
13
14 Sorry, did not notice it. I'm having this problem just a day or two...
15
16 > You won't cause any problems by removing nano although you won't be
17 > able to edit if that's the only editor on your system. I've done
18 > emerge -C nano for awhile. seen the same message when removing it, and
19 > then after that no problems.
20
21 But this is the only editor installed on my system, so I do not want
22 to loose it. BTW, I have 7 nearly identical boxes, all of them updated
23 at the same time, the same architecture and use-flags, but only on
24 one of them portage wants to unmerge nano. That's strange...
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26 Jarry