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-rwxr-xr-xbin/emerge4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/emerge b/bin/emerge
index 697e3124f..7ee863935 100755
--- a/bin/emerge
+++ b/bin/emerge
@@ -3802,7 +3802,9 @@ def action_depclean(settings, trees, ldpath_mtimes,
print warn_prefix + "Also study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious"
print warn_prefix + "mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always"
print warn_prefix + "be kept. They can be manually added to this set with"
- print warn_prefix + good("`emerge --noreplace <atom>`") + "."
+ print warn_prefix + good("`emerge --noreplace <atom>`") + ". Packages that are listed in"
+ print warn_prefix + "package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by"
+ print warn_prefix + "depclean, even if they are part of the world set."
print warn_prefix
print warn_prefix + "As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages"
print warn_prefix + "unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a"