Bug 645964

Summary:	Recursive dependencies not detected during --depclean for build-time packages
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Cedric Sodhi <manday>
Component:	Core - Dependencies	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	manday
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	webkit-gtk ebuild causing the dependency

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.