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 <matthewfbrooks@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.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2024-09-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@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

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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.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2024-09-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@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

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