I faced this problem several times with different packages, so this is not the only case. ddc@ddclpc ~ $ emerge -pvuD --newuse world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-libs/libwmf-0.2.8.4 USE="X expat* jpeg -debug -doc -gd -gtk -xml" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB ddc@ddclpc ~ $ emerge -pv tclxml These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-tcltk/tclxml-3.1 USE="expat* threads -xml" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB My info: ddc@ddclpc ~ $ uname -a Linux ddclpc 2.6.19-suspend2 #2 Wed Dec 13 16:04:30 MSK 2006 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-28 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux ddc@ddclpc ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_rc4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-suspend2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-suspend2 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-28 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8 Last Sync: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:30:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.koi8-r" LC_ALL="ru_RU.koi8-r" LINGUAS="ru" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl agg alsa alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol amr async bash-completion bashlogger bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cli cracklib crypt cups divx dlloader dri dts dvd dvdread elibc_glibc enca encode expat ffmpeg firefox flac ftp gcc64 gif glibc-omitfp gmedia gnutls gpm icecast iconv ieee1394 imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k justify kernel_linux libg++ linguas_ru logrotate mad matroska md5sum mikmod mng moznopango mp3 mp3rtp mpeg musepack ncurses nls nntp no-old-linux nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg optimisememory pam paste64 pcre pdf perl pic png ppds pppd python quicktime readline realmedia reflection restrict-javascript rle samba sdl session socks5 speex spell spl ssl svg syslog tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU vcd video_cards_radeon vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis vorbis-psy wmf wmp x264 xorg xosd xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Post the output of: grep media-libs/libwmf /var/lib/portage/world grep dev-tcltk/tclxml /var/lib/portage/world grep media-libs/libwmf /var/db/pkg/*/*/?DEPEND grep dev-tcltk/tclxml /var/db/pkg/*/*/?DEPEND
Well, I wouldn't faint if neither was a dependency. I have GIMP and tkabber installed. ddc@ddclpc ~ $ grep media-libs/libwmf /var/lib/portage/world ddc@ddclpc ~ $ grep dev-tcltk/tclxml /var/lib/portage/world ddc@ddclpc ~ $ grep media-libs/libwmf /var/db/pkg/*/*/?DEPEND /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/gimp-2.3.13/RDEPEND:>=dev-libs/glib-2.8.2 >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.20-r1 >=x11-libs/pango-1.12.2 >=media-libs/freetype-2.1.7 >=media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.0 >=media-libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.8-r1 sys-libs/zlib dev-libs/libxml2 dev-libs/libxslt x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme aalib? ( media-libs/aalib ) alsa? ( >=media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.0 ) doc? ( app-doc/gimp-help ) gnome? ( >=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.0 >=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.10.0 >=gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.5 ) gtkhtml? ( =gnome-extra/gtkhtml-2* ) jpeg? ( >=media-libs/jpeg-6b-r2 >=media-libs/libexif-0.6.0 ) lcms? ( media-libs/lcms ) mng? ( media-libs/libmng ) pdf? ( >=app-text/poppler-bindings-0.3.1 ) png? ( >=media-libs/libpng-1.2.2 ) python? ( >=dev-lang/python-2.2.1 >=dev-python/pygtk-2 ) tiff? ( >=media-libs/tiff-3.5.7 ) svg? ( >=gnome-base/librsvg-2.2.8 ) wmf? ( >=media-libs/libwmf-0.2.8 ) /var/db/pkg/media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2/RDEPEND:zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib ) !<www-client/mozilla-1.7.3-r3 !<www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 !<mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-0.9-r3 !<media-libs/libwmf-0.2.8.2 ddc@ddclpc ~ $ grep dev-tcltk/tclxml /var/db/pkg/*/*/?DEPEND /var/db/pkg/dev-tcltk/tclxml-3.1/RDEPEND:>=dev-lang/tcl-8.2 >=dev-tcltk/tcllib-1.2 xml? ( >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.9 ) expat? ( dev-libs/expat ) !dev-tcltk/tclxml-expat /var/db/pkg/net-im/tkabber-0.9.9/RDEPEND:>=dev-lang/tcl-8.3.3 >=dev-lang/tk-8.3.3 || ( >=dev-tcltk/tclxml-3.0 dev-tcltk/tclxml-expat ) crypt? ( >=dev-tcltk/tclgpgme-1.0 ) >=dev-tcltk/tcllib-1.3 >=dev-tcltk/bwidget-1.3 ssl? ( >=dev-tcltk/tls-1.4.1 ) >=dev-tcltk/tkXwin-1.0 >=dev-tcltk/tkTheme-1.0
Have you run `emerge --ask --depclean` lately? Also, the --with-bdeps docs in `man emerge` might be relevant. If you still think there's a problem, post --debug output for the emerge command that doesn't pull in the expected packages (`emerge -pvuD --newuse --debug world` in this case).
Do You mean that the orphan packages are not updated with 'emerge -uD --newuse world'?
(In reply to comment #4) > Do You mean that the orphan packages are not updated with 'emerge -uD --newuse > world'? Essentially, yes. If they're not a deep dependency of either system or world then they won't be updated.
Oh! Please remove this bug report then, fr there was no package depending on tclxml neither in world file nor in system profile.
