On 2024-09-03, Matthew Brooks <matthewfbro...@posteo.net> wrote: > 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 don't think so. Nothing else is getting built. I can alternately do -auvND and --dpeclean all day, and only those four get installed and then uninstalled.