From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB34B158066 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:28:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C4A9E2A33; Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout02.posteo.de (mout02.posteo.de [185.67.36.66]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 00F41E2A22 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from submission (posteo.de [185.67.36.169]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 195B2240101 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2024 19:28:34 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1725384515; bh=krz9b311MDFgznTW+0DWVm71TaNasTMreTICVKPcXLM=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding:From; b=Ve+6XiTzXWzejuZW4KJRlgti5BlN66UCzLmuSPnL6R6GUop+1y4uiYtVwRe5lkqXm /5AuTv5yANKZ7uO34zPFsE1rDN/WXPBXpPypeRXVhnt0Q/EvGG23YHEQy3/qDr0WDJ DzNmMZayhZZ4twRdFNqhAvleIwBzzQfOIL+2ysruZotnt8P624RnjOjWCy4FlEhVUe 2CC15LqjIUdb0pwenJehGAilRr6pb48iKSIIfZ4LGFA88tvYR4piwSgBoN1++pAsQI rGSSVb2ufnW7IoFunSF+y69WeH1jF+iATQynTOQ2WJQTlYQsHWYfR3RjPjWZNiSorA kQj3ebH7Laa2g== Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4WyszQ0thZz9rxD for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2024 19:28:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:28:31 +0000 From: Matthew Brooks To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge keeps installing then uninstalling qtbase, qttools, ... Message-ID: <20240903122831.3e5a438a@framework> In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0676ce22-57ae-46b1-8973-605356e98721 X-Archives-Hash: 45cd3148b5936bc29841f24a296b76ad 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 wrote: > On 2024-09-03, Grant Edwards 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 > > >