645964 – Recursive dependencies not detected during --depclean for build-time packages

Bug 645964 - Recursive dependencies not detected during --depclean for build-time packages

Summary: Recursive dependencies not detected during --depclean for build-time packages

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Dependencies (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2018-01-28 13:50 UTC by Cedric Sodhi
Modified:	2018-01-28 14:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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webkit-gtk ebuild causing the dependency (webkit-gtk-9999.ebuild,823 bytes, text/plain) 2018-01-28 13:51 UTC, Cedric Sodhi	Details
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Description Cedric Sodhi 2018-01-28 13:50:35 UTC

I noticed this in the case of webkit-gtk (in a personal overlay, but that shouldn't matter), which DEPENDs on rubygems, which in turn has a recursive RDEPENDency on dev-lang/ruby. `emerge --depclean --with-bdeps=y` would not clean any of the ruby packages unless webkit-gtk was fully deselected. I suspect it did not detect the recursive dependency.

I attach the ebuild of the overlay (I just use it to pull in the dependencies) for review, just in case.

Comment 1 Cedric Sodhi 2018-01-28 13:51:08 UTC

Created attachment 516992 [details]
webkit-gtk ebuild causing the dependency

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2018-01-28 14:07:39 UTC

If you want to remove DEPEND packages, you need to use --with-bdeps=n instead.

Comment 3 Cedric Sodhi 2018-01-28 14:31:34 UTC

Thank you and apologies for the false bug.