Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge keeps installing then uninstalling qtbase, qttools, ...

[Matthew Brooks <matthewfbrooks@posteo.net>]

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
> 
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> 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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