On Mon, Dec 04 2017, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 04/12/17 17:49, John Covici wrote: >> On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 04:26:09 -0500, >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> >>> [1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>] > > Your system is somewhat broken I think. You need to look at each > package and resolve the problem - possibly stray entries in one of the > package files or world. Have you done a depclean recently? > > BillK
This sounds like good advice but I have a question concerning --depclean. I would have thought that Any package --depclean would remove is not required by anything in @world so would not be merged by emerge -e @world On one system I am rather behind in doing --depclean and wonder if I must finish that task before trying emerge -e @world. thanks, allan