[gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Gentoo.

As prompted after the recent perl update, I did # emerge --depclean -va.

emerge included openrc (the only version of it on my system) in the
packages it planned to remove.  It was kind enough to give me a warning
that this "might" do bad things, but I was somewhat shocked to see it
there at all.  I might have accidentally typed 'y' instead of 'n'.

Maybe the program wants revenge at me executing so seldomly.  Or
something like that.

But now, my question is how can I trust --depclean even a little bit
after that?  Do I have to go through all the package versions, manually
removing the obsolete ones?  There are several hundred.  :-(

What do I do?

Help!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).