On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 06:56:17PM +0200, Jarry wrote: > # emerge --depclean
<...> > * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more > * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the > * packages that pulled them in. > * > * sys-libs/db-4.6.21_p4 pulled in by: > * dev-lang/php-5.2.10 > * "depclean" says it won't clean the db package because of a php dependency. I _guess_ it comes from the "berkdb" use flag of php. > I repeated it a few times, still the same. So what can I do more > to fix it? I you're sure you don't need db, you could try to remove it by hand and see if 'emerge php' want reinstall it. I think you should use quickpkg or demerge before everything else. -- Nicolas Sebrecht