On 2021-10-21 00:53:55, [email protected] wrote: > > 1 day, 1 emerge --sync, 1 update later: php-7.4 is additionally > installed. for a php application i would expect that 1 php version is > enough. but depending on the use flag this is not the case for > nextcloud and roundcube, 2 versions are installed each.
If some application pulls in dev-lang/php when 7.3 is stable, you'll get 7.3. Then if later php-7.4 is marked stable, 7.4 will also be installed, alongside the existing 7.3 that is probably no longer needed afterwards.
