Revdep-rebuild from package app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc9 wants to unmerge xorg-server and other packages essential for X when X packages and kde is installed. Drivers are listed in VIDEO_CARDS: "nvidia nv nouveau vesa v4l" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Be ~amd64 2. Have this in /var/lib/portage/world installed: app-admin/logrotate app-admin/syslog-ng app-arch/deb2targz app-arch/rpm app-arch/rpm2targz app-arch/unrar app-cdr/k3b app-editors/vim app-misc/mc app-office/openoffice-bin app-portage/gentoolkit app-text/acroread dev-java/sun-jdk dev-java/sun-jre-bin dev-lang/R dev-util/lafilefixer kde-base/kde-meta kde-base/kdesdk-meta kde-misc/krusader mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird mail-filter/procmail mail-mta/sendmail media-fonts/terminus-font media-gfx/gqview media-video/avidemux media-video/smplayer media-video/vlc net-analyzer/traceroute net-dns/bind net-dns/bind-tools net-firewall/iptables net-fs/nfs-utils net-libs/webkit-gtk net-misc/dhcpcd net-misc/netkit-telnetd net-misc/ntp net-misc/tightvnc net-p2p/amule net-print/foomatic-db net-print/foomatic-db-ppds net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds sys-boot/grub sys-fs/dd-rescue sys-fs/reiserfsprogs sys-kernel/gentoo-sources sys-kernel/module-rebuild sys-libs/gpm sys-power/apcupsd sys-process/lsof sys-process/vixie-cron www-client/lynx www-client/mozilla-firefox x11-misc/xosview 3. Try to run revdep-repbuild -pv (--ignore) Actual Results: It likes to unmerge: media-fonts/corefonts selected: 1-r4 protected: none omitted: none app-arch/cabextract selected: 1.2-r1 protected: none omitted: none x11-proto/xf86rushproto selected: 1.1.2 protected: none omitted: none x11-proto/trapproto selected: 3.4.3 protected: none omitted: none x11-proto/xcmiscproto selected: 1.2.0 protected: none omitted: none x11-proto/bigreqsproto selected: 1.1.0 protected: none omitted: none x11-base/xorg-drivers selected: 1.7 protected: none omitted: none x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev selected: 2.3.2 protected: none omitted: none x11-drivers/xf86-input-joystick selected: 1.5.0 protected: none omitted: none x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard selected: 1.4.0 protected: none omitted: none x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse selected: 1.5.0 protected: none omitted: none x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv selected: 2.1.17 protected: none omitted: none x11-drivers/xf86-video-v4l selected: 0.2.0 protected: none omitted: none x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa selected: 2.3.0 protected: none omitted: none media-video/nvidia-settings selected: 190.53 protected: none omitted: none x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers selected: 190.53-r1 protected: none omitted: none sys-power/acpid selected: 1.0.10_p4 protected: none omitted: none x11-base/xorg-server selected: 1.7.6 protected: none omitted: none x11-libs/libxkbui selected: 1.0.2 protected: none omitted: none x11-libs/libpciaccess selected: 0.11.0 protected: none omitted: none Expected Results: All xorg-server* and X* and kde-meta* depending packages have to be not selected for unmerge. Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.33-gentoo-1d x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-1d-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_@_2.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p2-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r1, 3.1.2-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.33 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.dkm.cz/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirror.web4u.cz/" LANG="cs_CZ.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="cs en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="echo" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gmp gnome gpm gtk hal iconv idn ithreads java jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms ldap libnotify lzma mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly objc objc++ objc-gc odbc ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection samba sdl session slang speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcpd threads tiff tk truetype unicode usb vorbis wavpack x264 xattr xcb xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc 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 authn_alias authn_anon 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 deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="cs en" LIRC_DEVICES="inputlirc" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv nouveau vesa v4l" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY /etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde
Not a bug, but exactly expected behaviour. (You could want to run all your applications via ssh and X forwarding on a displayless server...)
Aha, I see, thank you. "Fixed" by emerge --noreplace xorg-server. Best regards, David.
