Add some helpful troubleshooting tips to the depclean warning message.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=3441

diff --git a/bin/emerge b/bin/emerge
index 2b2a72fcb2d2b6a3a30d3215c435f30c9bd1002f..ae3dfeb9802de3d1ba35db6c738875b6b5707b27 100755 (executable)
--- a/bin/emerge
+++ b/bin/emerge
@@ -3256,6 +3256,12 @@ elif "depclean"==myaction:
        print red("*** WARNING ***")+"  obvious mistakes. Packages can be manually added to the"
        print red("*** WARNING ***")+"  world list by running "+green("`emerge --noreplace <atom>`")+"."
        print red("*** WARNING ***")
+       print red("*** WARNING ***")+"  It is normal for packages that are masked or listed in package.provided"
+       print red("*** WARNING ***")+"  to be removed by depclean.  These are the most likely reasons that"
+       print red("*** WARNING ***")+"  depclean will remove a package even though it is in the world or system"
+       print red("*** WARNING ***")+"  package set.  In order to troubleshoot these types of problems, it is"
+       print red("*** WARNING ***")+"  often helpful to look at the output of "+green("`grep -r <atom> /etc/portage`")+"."
+       print red("*** WARNING ***")
        print red("*** WARNING ***")+"  "+bold("Make sure you have a backup.")
 
        syslist=getlist("system")