While I'm not familiar enough with those packages to know for certain, it sounds like they're probably *build* dependencies for something, but not actual *runtime* dependencies, and so depclean prunes them, and then whenever the package that needs them gets built again they get pulled in again.
I pretty much always use the "--with-bdeps" flag so that all the build dependencies will stay installed and up-to-date for whenever they're next needed. I'm not *certain* if that's the problem here, but that general behavior sounds like build-deps getting pruned. On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 02:47:55 -0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2024-09-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For the past 4 days or so, every time I do a sync and then > > 'emerge -auvND world', portage installs the following: > > > > qttools > > qtbase > > qttranslations > > xcb-util-cursor > > > > Afterwards, when I do 'emerge --depclean', it uninstalls them. > > > > Any ideas why? It's getting a little annoying. > > # emerge -auvNDt world > > * IMPORTANT: 30 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. > * Use eselect news read to view new items. > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > Dependency resolution took 26.51 s (backtrack: 0/20). > > [nomerge ] dev-qt/qttools-6.7.2:6/6.7.2::gentoo USE="assistant > linguist qdbus widgets (zstd) -clang -designer -distancefieldgenerator > -gles2-only -opengl -pixeltool -qdoc -qml -qtattributionsscanner -qtdiag > -qtplugininfo -vulkan" LLVM_SLOT="18 -15 -16 -17" > [nomerge ] dev-qt/qtbase-6.7.2-r4:6/6.7.2::gentoo USE="X concurrent > dbus gtk gui libinput network nls sql sqlite ssl udev widgets xml (zstd) > -accessibility -brotli -cups -eglfs -evdev -gles2-only -gssapi -icu -journald > -libproxy -mysql -oci8 -odbc -opengl -postgres -renderdoc -sctp -syslog -test > -tslib -vulkan -wayland" > [ebuild N ] dev-qt/qttranslations-6.7.2:6/6.7.2::gentoo 0 KiB > [ebuild N ] dev-qt/qttools-6.7.2:6/6.7.2::gentoo USE="assistant > linguist qdbus widgets (zstd) -clang -designer -distancefieldgenerator > -gles2-only -opengl -pixeltool -qdoc -qml -qtattributionsscanner -qtdiag > -qtplugininfo -vulkan" LLVM_SLOT="18 -15 -16 -17" 0 KiB > [ebuild N ] dev-qt/qtbase-6.7.2-r4:6/6.7.2::gentoo USE="X > concurrent dbus gtk gui libinput network nls sql sqlite ssl udev widgets xml > (zstd) -accessibility -brotli -cups -eglfs -evdev -gles2-only -gssapi -icu > -journald -libproxy -mysql -oci8 -odbc -opengl -postgres -renderdoc -sctp > -syslog -test -tslib -vulkan -wayland" 0 KiB > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/xcb-util-cursor-0.1.5::gentoo ABI_X86="(64) > -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB > > Total: 4 packages (4 new), Size of downloads: 0 KiB > > >
