On 4 January 2017 at 21:25, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I always do `emerge -uDN world`. Which is --update --deep --newuse... > I've just never had that happen with depclean before. Odd, no? > > I usually do: > > `emerge -uDN world` > > and > > `emerge -ac` to depclean afterwards. > > As I use --deep all the time, I'm still confused as to why needed > packages weren't installed. > > I've also always used --deep, but I've seen this many times. I've recently started using "--with-bdeps=y" as well, and I don't think I've seen this happen since then, so I'm guessing binary deps are the culprit.
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