--depclean wants to remove vital packages

[aposteeltje]

Hello there.
I'm a bit confused.
I have a fresh funtoo installation with Mate-desktop.
After emerge -auDN @world
Portage recomments to do a --depclean.,
but when i do, it wants to remove a lot of mate-packages, and some other packages, that seem to me vital.
For now, i just cancel the act, because i'm affraid that the system won't boot anymore.
Can anyone tell me if it's safe to answer "yes" to the action?

A full list of packages, that Portage pulls for deletion, can be found here:

http://pastebin.com/kadNWRB8

 

Thanks in advance.

 

[Oleg Vinichenko]

do you have mate-1.14 installed before that? should be updated from 1.12 to 1.14

paste your /var/lib/portage/world

[aposteeltje]

Thank you for your answer.

This is all; my world file:

bwg-inc aposteeltje # cat /var/lib/portage/world
app-admin/sudo
app-portage/eix
app-portage/layman
dev-util/cmake
dev-util/quilt
mate-base/mate-control-center
mate-extra/mate-power-manager
media-fonts/infinality-ultimate-meta
media-fonts/ubuntu-font-family
media-libs/fontconfig-ultimate
media-video/smplayer
net-libs/glib-networking
net-libs/libproxy
net-libs/libsoup
net-misc/networkmanager
sys-boot/boot-update
sys-kernel/debian-sources
sys-kernel/linux-firmware
www-client/firefox-bin
x11-apps/xinit
x11-base/xorg-x11
x11-misc/lightdm
x11-misc/lightdm-gtk-greeter
x11-themes/mate-backgrounds
bwg-inc aposteeltje #

 

Mate isn't included in the @world file, but i DID merged it with emerge -a mate, so shouldn't it be recordered in the world file?

Indeed i'm running Mate-1.12

Running the command again, pulls version 1.14 :

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U  ] x11-themes/mate-icon-theme-1.14.0 [1.12.0]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/mate-desktop-1.14.1 [1.12.1-r2]
[ebuild  NS    ] x11-libs/libwnck-3.20.1 [2.31.0] USE="introspection -startup-notification -tools"
[ebuild  NS    ] dev-cpp/gtkmm-3.20.1 [2.24.5] USE="X (-aqua) -doc -examples {-test} -wayland" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)"
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/mate-menus-1.14.0 [1.12.0-r1]
[ebuild     U  ] media-gfx/eom-1.14.2 [1.12.2-r3]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-extra/mate-utils-1.14.1 [1.12.0-r2]
[ebuild  N     ] gnome-extra/gnome-calculator-3.20.2
[ebuild  N     ] mate-extra/mate-system-monitor-1.14.0  USE="(-systemd)"
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/caja-1.14.2 [1.12.7-r2]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/mate-panel-1.14.2 [1.12.2-r3]
[ebuild     U  ] x11-misc/mozo-1.14.1 [1.12.0-r1]
[ebuild     U  ] x11-terms/mate-terminal-1.14.1 [1.12.1]
[ebuild     U  ] app-editors/pluma-1.14.1 [1.12.2-r1]
[ebuild  N     ] mate-extra/mate-netbook-1.14.0  USE="-gtk3"
[ebuild  N     ] app-text/atril-1.14.2  USE="caja dbus djvu introspection postscript tiff -debug -dvi -epub -gnome-keyring -gtk3 -t1lib -xps"
[ebuild     U  ] mate-extra/mate-media-1.14.1 [1.12.1]
[ebuild  N     ] app-arch/engrampa-1.14.1  USE="caja -gtk3 -magic (-packagekit)"
[ebuild     U  ] x11-misc/mate-notification-daemon-1.14.1 [1.12.1]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-extra/caja-extensions-1.14.1 [1.12.0-r1]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/mate-session-manager-1.14.1 [1.12.2-r1]
[ebuild     U  ] x11-wm/marco-1.14.2 [1.12.1]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-extra/mate-screensaver-1.14.1 [1.12.0-r1]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/mate-applets-1.14.1-r1 [1.12.1-r4]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/mate-applets-meta-1.14 [1.12]
[ebuild  N     ] mate-base/mate-1.14  USE="base extras notification themes (-bluetooth) -gtk3 -help"
[blocks B      ] net-analyzer/mate-netspeed ("net-analyzer/mate-netspeed" is hard blocking mate-base/mate-applets-1.14.1-r1)

 

Or should i just perform: emerge -auDN @world --keep-going

And will it then be recordered in the world file?

[aposteeltje]

This happens when i update World:

bwg-inc aposteeltje # emerge -auDN @world

 * IMPORTANT: 3 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news read to view new items.


These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U  ] virtual/perl-Storable-2.560.0-r1 [2.560.0]
[ebuild     U  ] x11-themes/mate-icon-theme-1.14.0 [1.12.0]
[ebuild     U  ] media-libs/libmatemixer-1.14.0 [1.12.1-r1]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/mate-desktop-1.14.1 [1.12.1-r2]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/libmatekbd-1.14.1 [1.12.1-r2]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-extra/mate-polkit-1.14.0 [1.12.0-r2]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/mate-menus-1.14.0 [1.12.0-r1]
[ebuild     U  ] dev-libs/libmateweather-1.14.3 [1.12.2]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/caja-1.14.2 [1.12.7-r2]
[ebuild     U  ] mate-base/mate-panel-1.14.2 [1.12.2-r3]
[ebuild     U  ] x11-wm/marco-1.14.2 [1.12.1]
[ebuild     U  ] x11-misc/mate-notification-daemon-1.14.1 [1.12.1]

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]

[Oleg Vinichenko]

emerge mate should record it into world, otherwise, if not merged explicitly, then emerge --depclean will attempt to remove dependent packages. 

so, if mate not in world file, you either merged it with --oneshot, removed it from world  or there is some yet undefined bug.