[gentoo-user] dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged/unmerged at random

[gentoo-user] dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged/unmerged at random

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Every time I do a world update, dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged 
(parallel to 0.42.7 which is already emerged as a dep of something.) 
When I then do an 'emerge --depclean', portage wants to unmerge it 
again. On the next world update, it comes back. Then depclean wants to 
unmerge it again. But only sometimes...

If I run 'emerge -p --depclean' a bunch of times in succession, 
sometimes portage wants to unmerge vala-0.44.7, sometimes it doesn't. 
Anyone else getting this weirdness? This has been going on for a while 
now. I'm on portage-2.3.75-r1 currently.

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged/unmerged at random

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 9/7/19 12:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Every time I do a world update, dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged 
> (parallel to 0.42.7 which is already emerged as a dep of something.) 
> When I then do an 'emerge --depclean', portage wants to unmerge it 
> again. On the next world update, it comes back. Then depclean wants to 
> unmerge it again. But only sometimes...
> 

It's probably a build-time dependency of something, but isn't needed
after the installation completes. The "emerge" man page is completely
incomprehensible in this regard, but I think the default behavior is to
unmerge those with --depclean.