glowworm wrote:
> I just tried an emerge --depclean --pretend world and I had these stats:
>
> Packages installed: 711
> Packages in world: 108
> Packages in system: 59
> Unique package names: 576
> Required packages: 590
> Number to remove: 133
>
> Alot of these packages are things like lynx, gentoo-bashcomp etc. Things
> I want to keep.
>
> What is the best way to mask out these packages so a --depclean won't
> remove them? Ultimately I would love to have it so --depclean only chose
> a few truely obsolete packages.

Add the packages to your world-list...

For lynx it will be something like:
echo "www-client/lynx" >> /var/lib/portage/world

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