On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:47:41AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > I just posted a message ("emerge --depclean does not remove due to link > level dependencies") due to similar issues. My guess is that php links to > some sys-libs/db library, even if db is not a dependency to php.
To be correct, if php links to db, db _IS_ a dependency of php. If portage is not aware of this dependency, the _ebuild_ is wrong and miss a declaration for this dependency. -- Nicolas Sebrecht