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On 8/17/2010 3:49 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> USE only affects optional dependencies. euse -I hal will list packages
>> that have a hal USE flag while emerge --depclean -pv sys-apps/hal will
>> show those that depend o it. 
> 
> I've just experimented a bit with that and it turned out that 
> --depclean doesn't clean up the buildtime-only deps. But if I
> remove one of them (eg. cabextract), they don't get pulled in again
> (that's indicating the depending ebuilds are written properly).
> 
> Is this a bug ?

--depclean is supposed to pull in build-time dependencies, unless you
specify "--with-bdeps n".  So if that's not happening, then I'd say it
is a bug.