On Mon, 9 Feb 2026, at 15:27, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > So, the question remains, why is emerge @preserved-rebuild trying to > merge php-8.2.30? Nothing uses it. Why does the emerge -pqeO command > even show this ebuild? This feels like a bug.
First of all, how did you decide on this command? -e and -O seem to be opposing options that I bet could lead to weird results. Second, did you ever install this manually, putting it in your @world set? Try emerge -pcv dev-lang/php:8.2 to see if it can be easily removed, and it will tell you what, if anything, keeps the package there. You obviously don't want it there, so try to remove it before trying to figure out the potentially deep dependency that brings it in. Regards, Arve
