Check for yourself emerge --info | grep prefix IUSE_IMPLICIT="prefix" this is happening on all profiles because it was added to base/make.defaults: 1.86 (axs 27-Sep-12): IUSE_IMPLICIT="prefix" It looks like this has little effect but it seems to be messing up --depclean for some users. For instance, xorg-server is pretty much always depped like "!prefix xorg-server" and a bunch of my users are claiming they are randomly losing xorg-server on depclean. Full disclosure, this report is coming in from people with pentoo profiles, but the issue appears to be caused by the gentoo base profile and could be affecting every user. I'm still not sure why this doesn't affect my personal system, but it is randomly hitting some (but not all) of my users. Please let me know what other information you need.
I'm told in -portage that this should have no effect of setting the use flag (which I figured) but it's the only thing that says prefix in emerge --info so I'm a bit confused why xorg-server keeps getting depcleaned.... thoughts?
Is it supposed to be required that xorg-server is in the world file, or should it be pulled in as a dep of wm's like xfce and e? Still odd that I'm getting this issue on some users but not others, but I have people willing to test available so please let me know if anything is needed.
Traced down the xorg-server DEPEND to virtualx.eclass but it seems it's not listed as an RDEPEND... that just feels wrong to me. Anyway, I'm going to shut up, go to sleep, and let someone who knows what they are talking about comment.
Now this hit me too on my 2 PCs. I had to add it now to world file. I wonder about for what I have set X and xorg use flags. Should there not be enough dependencies on a full desktop-system with LXDE and KDE ? Is this something for the wayland migrate process? emerge --info Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.18-r1, 3.14.0-rc7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.14.0-rc7-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4400+-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 3598868 total, 2476996 free KiB Swap: 9369592 total, 9369592 free Timestamp of tree: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24 ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.6, 3.3.4 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.2-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13 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ssh ssl startup-notification statistics stk stream subtitles subversion svg swat symlink syslog szip taglib tcpd texteffect tftp theora threads thumbnail tiff translator truetype twolame udev udisks unicode upower urlpicpreview usb v4l vaapi vamp vboxwebsrv vcd vcdx vdpau video videos vidmode vim-syntax virtualbox vlm vnc vorbis vpx vroot vst wad wav wavpack webgl webkit webm webpresence wifi winbind winpopup wireshark wmf wps wxwidgets x264 x265 xa xattr xcb xcomposite xfs xine xinerama xinetd xml xmp xorg xosd xpm xrandr xscreensaver xv xvfb xvid xvmc zip zlib" ABI_X86="64" 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" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 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dev-python/pygobject-3.10.2 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) dev-python/pygtk-2.24.0-r4 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) dev-util/cmake-2.8.12.2 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) gnome-base/gnome-keyring-3.10.1 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) gnome-base/libglade-2.6.4 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) kde-base/konsole-4.12.3 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) kde-base/ksysguard-4.11.7 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) kde-base/systemsettings-4.11.7 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) media-gfx/gtkimageview-1.6.4 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) media-video/vlc-9999 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) net-libs/glib-networking-2.38.2 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.2.5 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.2.5-r200 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) sys-apps/dbus-1.8.0 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.8.2 (>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.12[udev]) (x11-base/xorg-server[xorg]) (x11-base/xorg-server) x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.7.0 (>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3) (x11-base/xorg-server[xorg]) (x11-base/xorg-server) x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0 (>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.7) (x11-base/xorg-server[xorg]) (x11-base/xorg-server) x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-7.3.0 (x11-base/xorg-server[-minimal]) (x11-base/xorg-server[xorg]) (x11-base/xorg-server) x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.4 (x11-base/xorg-server) (x11-base/xorg-server[xorg]) (x11-base/xorg-server) x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting-0.8.1 (x11-base/xorg-server[xorg]) (x11-base/xorg-server) x11-drivers/xf86-video-v4l-0.2.0 (>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99) x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3 (>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99) (x11-base/xorg-server[xorg]) (x11-base/xorg-server) x11-libs/glamor-0.6.0 (>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.10) (x11-base/xorg-server[-minimal]) (x11-base/xorg-server) x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.22 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) x11-libs/gtk+-3.10.7 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]) x11-libs/gtksourceview-2.10.5-r2 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb])
(In reply to jospezial from comment #4) > I wonder about for what I have set X and xorg use flags. Should there not be > enough dependencies on a full desktop-system with LXDE and KDE ? No, the X server and the desktop environment do not necessarily need to run on the same system.
Packages such as gnome-base/gdm, x11-misc/sddm, x11-wm/mutter RDEPEND on xorg-server.
