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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged/unmerged at random
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 18:39:09
Message-Id: cd08514b-a637-a6a6-124e-bffed4ff8dfc@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged/unmerged at random by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On 9/7/19 12:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Every time I do a world update, dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged
3 > (parallel to 0.42.7 which is already emerged as a dep of something.)
4 > When I then do an 'emerge --depclean', portage wants to unmerge it
5 > again. On the next world update, it comes back. Then depclean wants to
6 > unmerge it again. But only sometimes...
7 >
8
9 It's probably a build-time dependency of something, but isn't needed
10 after the installation completes. The "emerge" man page is completely
11 incomprehensible in this regard, but I think the default behavior is to
12 unmerge those with --depclean.