On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:21:35 +0300, Gevisz wrote: > I have just tried to upgrade my system (which I do almost every day) and > found out that portage wants to install 6 new python packages that seem > to be unnecessary because for example > # equery depends dev-python/pyopenssl > reports that no other package depends on this one.
..*at the moment*. In this case pyopenssl is required for ssl-fetch, which - at least here - is used by e.g. layman. One or more new packages can also come in as part of an update, e.g. when that package gains new capabilities. I suspect in your case that's mirrorselect. Unless you start emerging random packages by yourself (thereby adding them to @world) portage usually does the right thing. -h
