Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:28:18 -0400, John Covici wrote:

> > Can you post an example output from emerge, the eix entry from that
> > package and the entry in @world?
> In the case I see before me, depclean wants to unmerge
> dev-util/glib-utils  -- its not in my world file, but if I do
> qdepends dev-util/glib-utils I get
> dev-util/glib-utils-2.58.3: dev-libs/libxslt app-arch/xz-utils
> >=dev-lang/python-exec-2:2/2=[python_targets_python3_6(+),-python_single_target_jython2_7(+),-python_single_target_pypy(+),-python_single_target_pypy3(+),-python_single_target_python2_7(+),python_single_target_python3_6(+)]
> > !<dev-libs/glib-2.56.2:2 dev-lang/python:3.6
> > app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets

That is odd, I use emerge -cpv rather than qdepends and it shows many
reverse dependencies.
 
> but if I do eix of that it says:
> [U] dev-util/glib-utils
>      Available versions:  2.58.3{tbz2} 2.60.6 (~)2.60.7
> 	{PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5 python3_6 python3_7"
> 	PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_5 python3_6 python3_7"}
> 	     Installed versions:  2.58.3{tbz2}(08:28:38 AM
> 		05/10/2019)(PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6 -python3_5
> 		-python3_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6 -python3_5
> 		-python3_7")

It may not be relevant, but you don't have the latest version installed
and it is recommended to run depclean after a full world update.

> 				But if I do
> 				script -c "emerge  --update --deep
> --with-bdeps=y --changed-use --backtrack=500      --keep-going
> 				world"       /usr/src/world_update.txt
>
> It says 0 packages and stops.

So it's odd to see that portage considers your system up to date.
Although this is consistent with portage considering glib-utils to be
unnecessary. Does

grep -r glib-utils /etc/portage

show anything. Is the package listed in the output from emerge -ep @world?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Engineers do it with less resistance.