On 2020-07-21 13:08:16, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-07-20, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > These are build-only dependencies so "emerge --depclean" can remove them > > after you install bind-tools. > > Except it doesn't. I did an "emerge --depclean" after updating > bind-tools, and sphinx et al were not removed. >
The logic (and documentation) is incomprehensible to me, but this behavior depends on --with-bdeps and some related arguments to emerge.