emerge depclean removes gnutls, and emerge -uDN world installs it again, and then depclean removes it, and so on... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge depclean 2.emerge -uDN world Actual Results: 1. gnutls is uninstalled 2. gnutls is installed again Expected Results: It should not be uninstalled by depclean because some apps use gnutls. # equery depends gnut [ Searching for packages depending on gnutls... ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.1-r2 net-im/gaim-1.5.0 net-libs/libsoup-2.2.6.1 net-misc/curl-7.15.0 # equery uses gaim [ Found these USE variables for net-im/gaim-1.5.0 ] U I + + nls : <unknown> + + perl : Adds support/bindings for the Perl language. - - spell : Adds dictionary support - - nas : Adds support for network audio sound - - cjk : Adds support for Multi-byte character languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) - - gnutls : Adds support for net-libs/gnutls etc... # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/ http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo bzip2 bzlib cddb cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dts dvd dvdr emboss esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imagemagick imlib innodb java javascript jpeg jpeg2k junit kdeenablefinal lcms libg++ libwww logrotate mad mmx mmx2 mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar pam pcre pdflib perl php png python quicktime readline rtc ruby samba sasl sdl slang sqlite sse ssl tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vhosts vorbis win32codecs xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xvv xvid yv12 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
# equery depends gnut was wrongly typed. The correct is: # equery depends gnutls
This seems like a duplicate of bug 67179. Would you please attach the output of `emerge -pd depclean`?
Created attachment 73957 [details] Output of emerge -pd depclean
gnutls is not shown in "emerge -p depclean" anymore.
