El vie, 27-04-2018 a las 00:48 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: > On 04/26/2018 11:34 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:35:15 -0700 > > Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > emerge --depclean, resulting in an unbootable system. Just say-in. > > > > And depclean being very verbose doesn't do many favours here either. > > > > ( I regularly do >500 package depcleans and spotting things that aren't > > meant to be > > culled amongst that list is a bit of a challenge )> > > At least for system packages, it will show a warning like the one shown > here: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/642484#c0 > > Hopefully that message helps those that are paying enough attention. > What can we do for those that overlook the warning message, other than > give them some rescue instructions for making their system boot again?
Have you think in changing a bit the behavior of depclean to *not* depclean system packages and ask administrator to do something like "emerge -a --depclean --force" to force the depclean of that packages? That could help to prevent that mistakes I think Thanks
