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| -rw-r--r-- | pym/_emerge/__init__.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pym/_emerge/__init__.py b/pym/_emerge/__init__.py index 01c55dbae..2822895bb 100644 --- a/pym/_emerge/__init__.py +++ b/pym/_emerge/__init__.py @@ -6326,6 +6326,14 @@ def action_depclean(settings, trees, ldpath_mtimes, # Kill packages that aren't explicitly merged or are required as a # dependency of another package. World file is explicit. + # Global depclean or prune operations are not very safe when there are + # missing dependencies since it's unknown how badly incomplete + # the dependency graph is, and we might accidentally remove packages + # that should have been pulled into the graph. On the other hand, it's + # relatively safe to ignore missing deps when only asked to remove + # specific packages. + allow_missing_deps = len(myfiles) > 0 + msg = [] msg.append("Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is\n") msg.append("recommended to use a tool such as " + good("`revdep-rebuild`") + " (from\n") @@ -6540,13 +6548,13 @@ def action_depclean(settings, trees, ldpath_mtimes, if "--quiet" not in myopts: print "\b\b... done!\n" - if unresolveable: + if unresolveable and not allow_missing_deps: print "Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to" print "the following required packages not being installed:" print for atom in unresolveable: print atom, "required by", " ".join(unresolveable[atom]) - if unresolveable: + if unresolveable and not allow_missing_deps: print print "Have you forgotten to run " + good("`emerge --update --newuse --deep world`") + " prior to" print "%s? It may be necessary to manually uninstall packages that no longer" % action |