Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

[John Covici]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 03:33:29 -0400,
Neil Bothwick wrote:
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> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:41:14 -0400, John Covici wrote:
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> > Thanks much.  Now, what about depclean deleting packages where I have
> > the name in my world file, but no version numbers or anything, it
> > seems to want to delete what it maybe thinks are older versions even
> > if the "older" version is the only one installed?
>
> 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

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")
		     Homepage:            https://www.gtk.org/
			     Description:         Build utilities for GLib
				using projects
				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.

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