[gentoo-dev] Strange update world output

[Paul Waring <pwaring@gmail.com>]

I have a cron job on my system which runs emerge --sync && emerge -uDf
world early in the hours of the morning, so that each day I can login,
run emerge -uDp world and if I'm satisfied with what's about to be
updated I can upgrade straight away without having to wait for time
consuming syncs or downloads. However, this morning I woke up to the
following output from emerge -uDp world:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/nasm-0.98.39
[ebuild  N    ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2
[ebuild  N    ] x11-base/opengl-update-2.2.1
[ebuild  N    ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1
[ebuild  N    ] app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r2
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.5-r1
[ebuild  N    ] x11-terms/xterm-200-r1
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/audiofile-0.2.6-r1
[ebuild  N    ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.8
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.8
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/libogg-1.1.2
[[ebuild  N    ] kde-base/kde-env-3-r3
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/libvorbis-1.1.0
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/lcms-1.13-r1
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.4
[ebuild     U ] dev-db/postgresql-8.0.1-r3 [8.0.1-r2]
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r3
[ebuild  N    ] kde-base/arts-1.3.2-r1
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/lib-compat-1.4

Given that my USE flags include -X, -gtk, -qt etc. (I don't want any
graphical stuff as this is a server machine, and I've never had
anything like this come up before), why on earth is portage wanting to
install all these new packages? The only thing I can think of is that
the dependancies for postgresql have somehow changed, running emerge
-uDpv postgresql throws up most of what is shown above plus:

[ebuild     U ] dev-db/postgresql-8.0.1-r3 [8.0.1-r2] -debug -doc
-kerberos +libg++ +nls +pam +perl -pg-hier -pg-intdatetime +python
+readline (-selinux) +ssl -tcltk +xml2 +zlib 0 kB

Have I done something wrong, or has something changed in portage?

Thanks in advance.

Paul

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