[gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge --depclean' continuously drops dev-lang/ekopath

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 27/09/12 10:10, Stefan Hübner wrote:

Everytime 'emerge --depclean' drops dev-lang/ekopath it is reinstalled
on the next world update.

I guess dev-lang/ekopath is pulled in by dev-lang/R in my case (I do not
USE fortran). ekopath provides virtual/fortran which in turn is required
by R.
[...]
So, my question is: why does 'emerge --depclean' suggest to drop it?


I don't know, but you should probably enable the fortran USE flag of 
GCC and don't use ekopath.  The virtual also picks GCC first and only 
falls back to ekopath if you don't USE fortran on GCC.


I think this is a problem with portage, picking ekopath without telling 
the user anything.

[gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge --depclean' continuously drops dev-lang/ekopath

[Stefan Hübner]

Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:

 On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:10:11 +0200, Stefan Hübner wrote:

 Everytime 'emerge --depclean' drops dev-lang/ekopath it is reinstalled
 on the next world update.

 Are you using --with-bdeps=y?

On occasions, yes. But not in this case.