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

On 2021-08-04, Philip Webb wrote:

> 210804 Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 07:45:27 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
>>> $ emerge --ask --depclean | less
>> I tested this using "most" from within a "urxvt" terminal
>> and at least with default options it did not work for me.
>
> Why not write the output to a file ?  -- eg
> 'emerge --ask --depclean > <temporaryfilename>'.
> Then you can look at the output at leisure, even on another machine.

Other possibilities probably include using --pretend instead of --ask
(was this mentioned already? if so, my apologies) or using the "tee"
utility.

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Nuno Silva