I want to keep man-pages-it package, that is selected by LINGUAS="it" setting and nls USE flag in man-pages. But every time emerge --depclean mark it for unmerge. emerge man-pages instead, mark it for reinstalling. starbook # emerge -epv man-pages | grep man-pages-it [ebuild R ] sys-apps/man-pages-it-2.65 0 kb starbook # emerge --depclean -p >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: app-i18n/man-pages-it selected: 2.65 protected: none omitted: none starbook ~ # equery depends man-pages-it [ Searching for packages depending on man-pages-it... ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.76 (nls & linguas_it? app-i18n/man-pages-it) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. enable USE="nls" and LINGUAS="it" 2. emerge man-pages 2. emerge --depclean -p starbook ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-tuxonice-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-tuxonice-r2 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 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.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa avahi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dell dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam fbcondecor fbsplash ffmpeg firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 ipw3945 isdnlog java jpeg kerberos lame ldap libnotify lm_sensors logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter 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" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Not a portage bug.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 136953 ***
BTW, this behavior is new in portage-2.1.4. There are some special cases for USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN flags, forced flags, and a few other misc flags that aren't required in IUSE. Any other flags that aren't explicitly listed in IUSE are now filtered.
In svn r9387 portage is fixed so that the installation and depclean actions will be consistent wrt each other. I also added the appropriate linguas_* flags to IUSE in the man-pages-2.78 ebuild so that it will behave correctly. That's just what has to be done until we have an EAPI bump that includes a fix for bug 133327.
(In reply to comment #4) > In svn r9387 portage is fixed so that the installation and depclean actions > will be consistent wrt each other. This is fixed in 2.2_pre3.
This is supposed to be fixed in portage-2.2_pre5 or earlier.
