Actually, looking more closely at the emerge man pages, it says that --with-bdeps is already automatically supplied for depclean, so that's probably not the issue after all. My apologies.
It might be worth seeing what a full update of world, with the --emptytree flag says (though without actually doing the rebuild). Sometimes including that will notice inconsistencies that a regular emerge doesn't spot. On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:28:31 +0000 Matthew Brooks <matthewfbro...@posteo.net> wrote: > While I'm not familiar enough with those packages to know for certain, it > sounds like they're probably *build* dependencies for something, but not > actual *runtime* dependencies, and so depclean prunes them, and then whenever > the package that needs them gets built again they get pulled in again. > > I pretty much always use the "--with-bdeps" flag so that all the build > dependencies will stay installed and up-to-date for whenever they're next > needed. > > I'm not *certain* if that's the problem here, but that general behavior > sounds like build-deps getting pruned. > > > > On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 02:47:55 -0000 (UTC) > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2024-09-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > For the past 4 days or so, every time I do a sync and then > > > 'emerge -auvND world', portage installs the following: > > > > > > qttools > > > qtbase > > > qttranslations > > > xcb-util-cursor > > > > > > Afterwards, when I do 'emerge --depclean', it uninstalls them. > > > > > > Any ideas why? It's getting a little annoying. > > > > # emerge -auvNDt world > > > > * IMPORTANT: 30 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. > > * Use eselect news read to view new items. > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > Dependency resolution took 26.51 s (backtrack: 0/20). > > > > [nomerge ] dev-qt/qttools-6.7.2:6/6.7.2::gentoo USE="assistant > > linguist qdbus widgets (zstd) -clang -designer -distancefieldgenerator > > -gles2-only -opengl -pixeltool -qdoc -qml -qtattributionsscanner -qtdiag > > -qtplugininfo -vulkan" LLVM_SLOT="18 -15 -16 -17" > > [nomerge ] dev-qt/qtbase-6.7.2-r4:6/6.7.2::gentoo USE="X concurrent > > dbus gtk gui libinput network nls sql sqlite ssl udev widgets xml (zstd) > > -accessibility -brotli -cups -eglfs -evdev -gles2-only -gssapi -icu > > -journald -libproxy -mysql -oci8 -odbc -opengl -postgres -renderdoc -sctp > > -syslog -test -tslib -vulkan -wayland" > > [ebuild N ] dev-qt/qttranslations-6.7.2:6/6.7.2::gentoo 0 KiB > > [ebuild N ] dev-qt/qttools-6.7.2:6/6.7.2::gentoo USE="assistant > > linguist qdbus widgets (zstd) -clang -designer -distancefieldgenerator > > -gles2-only -opengl -pixeltool -qdoc -qml -qtattributionsscanner -qtdiag > > -qtplugininfo -vulkan" LLVM_SLOT="18 -15 -16 -17" 0 KiB > > [ebuild N ] dev-qt/qtbase-6.7.2-r4:6/6.7.2::gentoo USE="X > > concurrent dbus gtk gui libinput network nls sql sqlite ssl udev widgets > > xml (zstd) -accessibility -brotli -cups -eglfs -evdev -gles2-only -gssapi > > -icu -journald -libproxy -mysql -oci8 -odbc -opengl -postgres -renderdoc > > -sctp -syslog -test -tslib -vulkan -wayland" 0 KiB > > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/xcb-util-cursor-0.1.5::gentoo ABI_X86="(64) > > -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB > > > > Total: 4 packages (4 new), Size of downloads: 0 KiB > > > > > > > >
