"emerge --depclean" wants to remove qca-1.0-r3, but this package is needed by kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.9 I've tried to remove qca-1.0-r3, but it was emerged again on the next "emerge -uND world" $ emerge --depclean --with-bdeps y --pretend Calculating dependencies .... done! >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: app-crypt/qca selected: 2.0.1-r1 protected: none omitted: 1.0-r3 >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Packages installed: 980 Packages in world: 474 Packages in system: 51 Required packages: 979 Number to remove: 1 $ equery d app-crypt/qca-1.0-r3 app-crypt/qca-tls-1.0-r4 kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.9 $ equery d app-crypt/qca-2.0.1-r1 (Nothing) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Expected Results: emerge --depclean should not try to remove a package with dependencies. emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.18 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.18-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3000+-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:45:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.8 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.intergenia.de " LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="fr" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/webapps-experimental /usr/portage/local/layman/roslin /home/portover/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 arts bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cgraph cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri encode esd exif ffmpeg flac fontconfig fortran gd gif gnome gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde lm_sensors logrotate mad midi mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre perl php png postgres pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode vhosts vorbis xml xorg xpm xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Note that the dependency is conditional on the ssl USE flag: ssl? ( dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL =app-crypt/qca-tls-1.0* ) So, I guess you don't have that flag enabled on the installed instance of kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.9. You can verify this by checking the content of /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.9/USE.
It seems to me that kdenetwork is installed with ssl : $ cat /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.9/USE amd64 arts elibc_glibc kernel_linux ssl userland_GNU $ emerge -pv =kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.9 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.9 USE="arts ssl -debug -jingle -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -rdesktop -sametime -slp -wifi -xinerama" 9,124 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 9,124 kB
(In reply to comment #0) > app-crypt/qca > selected: 2.0.1-r1 > protected: none > omitted: 1.0-r3 It wants to remove 2.0.1-r1, not 1.0-r3 (that's what omitted means). I guess you've misunderstood the output.
Thanks for pointing my mistake :) I have unmerged app-crypt/qca-2.0.1-r1, and it's not reinstalled by "emerge -uND --with-bdeps y world" The only question that I have is : why has it been installed in the first place ?
It's quite common for dependencies to be added/removed/updated, and it's natural for some of these changes to make packages such as qca-2.0.1-r1 unnecessary. You may sometimes notice this behavior after running emerge --sync (even if you haven't installed or updated any packages since the last time you ran --depclean) due to the behavior described in comment bug #239006, comment #4.
