For example: localhost ~ # emerge -av1 gentoo-sources These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4.65:3.4.65 [3.4.62:3.4.62] USE="-build -deblob -symlink" 824 kB [ebuild rR ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.1-r1:2 USE="icu ipv6 lzma python readline -debug -examples -static-libs {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] virtual/python-argparse-1 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -pypy2_0 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] x11-proto/xcb-proto-1.8-r3 ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] dev-python/numpy-1.7.1 USE="-doc -lapack {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] sys-libs/talloc-2.1.0 USE="python -compat" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python2_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0.8-r2 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -pypy2_0 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.4.8 USE="graph rrdcgi tcpd -dbi -doc -lua -perl -python -ruby -static-libs -tcl" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] dev-python/pygame-1.9.2_pre20120101-r2 USE="X -doc -examples {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] gnome-base/gconf-3.2.6-r1:2 USE="gtk introspection policykit -debug -ldap -orbit" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" 0 kB And this packages (excluding sys-kernel/gentoo-sources of course) are requested to reinstall every time I want to reemerge/update for example sys-kernel/gentoo-sources, sys-fs/aufs3, sys-apps/portage, sys-devel/gcc and many other packages. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.2.7 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.4.62-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.4.62-gentoo-x86_64-Celeron-R-_Dual-Core_CPU_T3000_@_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 4014292 total, 975136 free KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 2097148 free Timestamp of tree: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 10:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2 ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r2, 3.2.5-r2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.13.4, 1.14 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4-r2 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo my_local_overlay mozilla perl-experimental nektoo seden ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mssse3 -mcx16 -mfpmath=sse,387 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mssse3 -mcx16 -mfpmath=sse,387 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=" --quiet-build=n" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirror2.corbina.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.bloodhost.ru/" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /var/lib/layman/mozilla /var/lib/layman/perl-experimental /var/lib/layman/nektoo /var/lib/layman/seden" SYNC="rsync://rsync.ru.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi adns alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluray branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus dga djvu dri dts dv dvd dvdr egl emboss encode exif fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fontconfig gcrypt gdbm gif gimp git gles2 gmp gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphite graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk3 gzip hardened iconv icu idn ipv6 jabber jack jpeg jpeg2k lame lcms libcaca libnotify llvm lm_sensors lzma lzo mad madwifi matroska midi mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack nas ncurses netlink nls nptl nss ogg openal opengl openmp openssl oscar pam pango pch pcre pdf pkcs11 png policykit portaudio postscript ppds raw readline samba scanner sdl session smp sndfile sockets socks5 sound speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg syslog taglib tcpd theora threads tiff timidity truetype udev udisks unicode upnp upower usb v4l vhosts vorbis vpx wavpack webp wget wifi x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_alias authn_anon authn_core authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_core authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cache_disk cgi cgid charset_lite dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation reqtimeout rewrite setenvif slotmem_shm socache_shmcb status unique_id unixd userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="*" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en ru" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i915 i965" XFCE_PLUGINS="brightness clock" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Can you give the same output with --tree --unordered-display?
(In reply to Tom Wijsman (TomWij) from comment #1) > Can you give the same output with --tree --unordered-display? localhost ~ # emerge -av1 --tree --unordered-display gentoo-sources Password: These are the packages that would be merged: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4.65:3.4.65 [3.4.62:3.4.62] USE="-build -deblob -symlink" 0 kB [nomerge ] virtual/dev-manager-0 [nomerge ] virtual/udev-206-r2 USE="gudev introspection kmod (-selinux) -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [nomerge ] sys-fs/udev-207 USE="acl firmware-loader gudev introspection kmod openrc -doc (-selinux) -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -3 2 (-x32)" [nomerge ] dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.36.0-r1 USE="cairo -doctool {-test}" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS= "python2_7" [nomerge ] x11-libs/cairo-1.12.16 USE="X glib opengl openvg svg xcb xlib-xcb (-aqua) -debug -directfb -doc (-drm) (-gallium) (-g les2) -legacy-drivers (-qt4) -static-libs -valgrind" [nomerge ] x11-libs/xcb-util-0.3.9 USE="-doc -static-libs {-test}" [nomerge ] x11-libs/xcb-util-wm-0.3.9 USE="-doc -static-libs {-test}" [ebuild rR ] x11-proto/xcb-proto-1.8-r3 ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [nomerge ] sys-apps/coreutils-8.21 USE="acl caps gmp nls xattr (-selinux) -static -vanilla" [nomerge ] sys-libs/libcap-2.22-r1 USE="pam" [nomerge ] virtual/pam-0 [nomerge ] sys-libs/pam-1.1.6-r2 USE="berkdb cracklib nls -audit -debug -nis (-selinux) {-test} -vim-syntax" [nomerge ] sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r2 USE="consolekit cracklib gnome-keyring pam_ssh sha512 -debug -minimal -mktemp -pam_krb5 -passwdqc (-selinux) -systemd" [nomerge ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-3.8.2 USE="caps filecaps pam -debug (-selinux) {-test}" [nomerge ] app-crypt/gcr-3.8.2:0/1 USE="gtk introspection -debug {-test}" [nomerge ] app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.21 USE="adns bzip2 nls readline usb -doc -ldap -mta (-selinux) -smartcard -static" [nomerge ] net-misc/curl-7.32.0 USE="idn ipv6 metalink rtmp ssh ssl threads -adns -kerberos -ldap -static-libs {-test}" CURL_SSL="openssl -axtls -cyassl -gnutls -nss -polarssl" [nomerge ] media-video/rtmpdump-2.4 USE="gnutls ssl -polarssl" [nomerge ] net-libs/gnutls-3.2.4 USE="cxx nls pkcs11 zlib -dane -doc -examples -guile -static-libs {-test}" LINGUAS="en -cs -de -fi -fr -it -ms -nl -pl -sv -uk -vi -zh_CN" [nomerge ] sys-devel/autogen-5.17.4 USE="-libopts -static-libs" [nomerge ] dev-scheme/guile-1.8.8-r1:12 USE="deprecated nls regex threads -debug -debug-freelist -debug-malloc -discouraged -emacs -networking" [nomerge ] sys-devel/gettext-0.18.3.1 USE="acl cxx git nls openmp -cvs -doc -emacs -java -static-libs" [nomerge ] dev-vcs/git-1.8.3.2 USE="blksha1 curl gnome-keyring gpg iconv nls pcre perl subversion threads webdav -cgi -cvs -doc -emacs -gtk -highlight (-ppcsha1) -python {-test} -tk -xinetd" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python2_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" [nomerge ] dev-vcs/subversion-1.7.13 USE="berkdb gnome-keyring nls perl webdav-neon -apache2 -ctypes-python -debug -doc -dso -extras -java -kde -python -ruby -sasl {-test} -vim-syntax -webdav-serf" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" [nomerge ] net-libs/neon-0.30.0:0/27 USE="gnutls libproxy nls pkcs11 ssl zlib -doc -expat -kerberos -static-libs" LINGUAS="ru -cs -de -fr -ja -nn -pl -tr -zh_CN" [ebuild rR ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.1-r1:2 USE="icu ipv6 lzma python readline -debug -examples -static-libs {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] dev-python/numpy-1.7.1 USE="-doc -lapack {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] dev-python/setuptools-1.1.6 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -pypy2_0 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] gnome-base/gconf-3.2.6-r1:2 USE="gtk introspection policykit -debug -ldap -orbit" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] virtual/python-argparse-1 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -pypy2_0 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0.8-r2 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -pypy2_0 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.4.8 USE="graph rrdcgi tcpd -dbi -doc -lua -perl -python -ruby -static-libs -tcl" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] sys-libs/talloc-2.1.0 USE="python -compat" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python2_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" 0 kB [ebuild rR ] dev-python/pygame-1.9.2_pre20120101-r2 USE="X -doc -examples {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 -python2_6 -python3_3" 0 kB
Hmm, those in the tree could be very well possible; but those near the end do not seem to make much sense.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 486438 ***
