I have both gimp 1.2.5 and 1.3.19 installed. If I 'emerge depclean' it cleans packages that are required by 1.2.5. I suspect that this probably happens for other slotted packages too, but it doesn't happen that often since newer versions of most packages usually have most or all of the dependencies of previous versions. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gimp-1.3.x and 1.2.x 2. emerge depclean 3. emerge -p gimp-1.2.x Actual Results: phong@poecilotheria:media-gfx/gimp $ emerge -p gimp-1.2.5.ebuild These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Text-Balanced-1.95 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Parse-RecDescent-1.94 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.31-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.4-r2 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/gtk-perl-0.7008-r9 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Data-Dumper-2.101 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Inline-0.44 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Filter-1.29 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/ExtUtils-F77-1.14-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/PDL-2.4.0-r1 [ebuild N ] media-libs/mpeg-lib-1.3.1-r1 [ebuild R ] media-gfx/gimp-1.2.5 Expected Results: None of those packages should have been removed. phong@poecilotheria:/home/phong $ emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor distcc 2.9 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.2 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox ccache userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ rsync://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga tcltk java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde opengl mozilla cdr scanner -gnome gtk2 -cups -motif -openmotif -lesstif moznomail moznocompose moznoirc -sane"
Verify with a current portage please.
I upgraded recently to portage-2.0.49-r18 to try out Python 2.3, and I can no longer reproduce the problem. It is possible that it was resolved prior to that also. It appears to be fixed as far as I can tell.
I am seeing this problem with portage 2.0.50-r11. I have the following slotted packages installed on my system: gconf (1.0.8-r3 and 2.6.2), gnome-vfs (1.0.5-r3 and 2.6.1.1), and control-center (1.4.0.5-r1 and 2.6.1). Whenever I run an "emerge -p depclean", the following packages are tagged for removal: gnome-common 2.4.0, gdk-pixbuf 0.22.0-r2, oaf 0.6.10, and gnome-libs 1.4.2. These packages are required by the older versions of gconf, gnome-vfs, and control-center (though apparently not the newer versions). Therefore, running the depclean would break functionality on my system.
I am seeing this bug with pena portage # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-rc1-love1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-rc1-love1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/src/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages noauto sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://lame.lut.fi/linux/gentoo " LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/gentoo-java-experimental" SYNC="rsync://aria/portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb freetype gcj gd gif gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick jack java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libg++ libwww logitech-mouse lzo mad makecheck mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses network nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png python qt quicktime readline real rtc ruby slang slp spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xv xvid zlib video_cards_nvidia userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS I have the new slotted ebuild in an overlay. After I put the new version to package.mask depclean doesn't want to remove the deps any more.
got same problem here like comment #3 with portage-2.0.51.19
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4698 ***
*** Bug 141281 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 126519 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
