[gentoo-user] strange emerge -ep numbers

[ralfconn <mentadent47@yahoo.com>]

Hello,

On my system:
emerge -p @world | wc -l
198
emerge -ep @world | wc -l
1151
emerge -p @system | wc -l
56
emerge -ep @system | wc -l
502

The last one does not look right, in particular the list of packages 
contains some from @world (e.g. keepassxc). I am running a local mixed 
profile local:23.0-no-multilib-hardened-desktop which I thought could be 
the culprit, but merely switching to default/linux/amd64/23.0 (without 
recompiling) does not change much the numbers. The same happens on 
another box where the difference between -e @world and -e @system is 
even more ridiculous (~750 vs ~500). Again there I use a mixed local 
profile, something like local:23.0-hardened-desktop.

Could the mixed profile be the reason? What numbers do others have?

thanks,

raffaele