On 09/06/2013 11:23 AM, Jarry wrote: >> >> It wasn't part of @system before, you just removed the thing that pulled >> it in. > > No I did not. mail-mta/ssmtp was part of stage3. And I did not > remove now any "thing" that pulled it in. All I did was > "emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse world". > > As a result, python-exec, python-argparse and libxml2 were > reinstalled and automake-wrapper, gtk-doc-am, eselect and > linux-header updated. Nothing else. > > After that I did "emerge --depclean" and the above mentioned > packages were suddenly removed... >
It could be that a package's deps were updated to no longer include virtual/mta. But it was never part of @system, you can check for yourself: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/packages?view=log
