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.
