[gentoo-user] Re: emerge keeps installing then uninstalling qtbase, qttools, ...

2024-09-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-09-03, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-09-03, Matthew Brooks wrote: > >> It might be worth seeing what a full update of world, with the >> --emptytree flag says (though without actually doing the >> rebuild). Sometimes including that will notice inconsistencies that >> a regular emerge doe

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge keeps installing then uninstalling qtbase, qttools, ...

2024-09-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-09-03, Matthew Brooks wrote: > It might be worth seeing what a full update of world, with the > --emptytree flag says (though without actually doing the > rebuild). Sometimes including that will notice inconsistencies that > a regular emerge doesn't spot. I don't see anything. It still

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge keeps installing then uninstalling qtbase, qttools, ...

2024-09-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-09-03, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-09-03, Matthew Brooks wrote: > >> While I'm not familiar enough with those packages to know for >> certain, it sounds like they're probably *build* dependencies for >> something, [...] > > I don't think so. Nothing else is getting built. > > I can alt

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge keeps installing then uninstalling qtbase, qttools, ...

2024-09-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-09-03, Matthew Brooks wrote: > It might be worth seeing what a full update of world, with the > --emptytree flag says (though without actually doing the > rebuild). Sometimes including that will notice inconsistencies that > a regular emerge doesn't spot. Thanks, I'll try that next time

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge keeps installing then uninstalling qtbase, qttools, ...

2024-09-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-09-03, Matthew Brooks 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge keeps installing then uninstalling qtbase, qttools, ...

2024-09-03 Thread Matthew Brooks
Actually, looking more closely at the emerge man pages, it says that --with-bdeps is already automatically supplied for depclean, so that's probably not the issue after all. My apologies. It might be worth seeing what a full update of world, with the --emptytree flag says (though without actual

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge keeps installing then uninstalling qtbase, qttools, ...

2024-09-03 Thread Matthew Brooks
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.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge keeps installing then uninstalling qtbase, qttools, ...

2024-09-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-09-03, Grant Edwards 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