azureus-bin & commons-cli: portage dependency confusion

[SDraconis]

I recently did the normal "emerge --sync && emerge --update --deep world" and came back to find that my system had failed on emerging jakarta-regexp. Puzzled as to why I would need jakarta-regexp in the first place, I proceeded to look over what exactly what else was being installed.

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 # emerge -pv --update --deep world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jakarta-regexp-1.3-r2  -doc -jikes -source 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/bcel-5.1-r1  -doc -jikes -source 12,338 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/xml-commons-1.0_beta2  -doc -jikes -source 1,778 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/xml-commons-resolver-1.1  -doc -source 225 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/xjavac-20041208-r1  -jikes 1 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/xerces-2.6.2-r2  -doc -examples -jikes -source 1,574 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/servletapi-2.3-r2  -doc -jikes -source 124 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/bsf-2.3.0-r2  -doc -jikes -jython -rhino -source 1,021 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/javacup-0.10k  -source 186 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/xalan-2.6.0-r2  -doc -jikes -source 5,737 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/libreadline-java-0.8.0-r1  -doc -source 75 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jython-2.1-r6  -doc -jikes +readline -source 1,271 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/rhino-1.5.5-r1  -doc -jikes -source 1,505 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jdepend-2.8.1  -doc -jikes -source 377 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jzlib-1.0.5  -doc -jikes -source 48 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/gnu-crypto-2.0.1  -doc 3,804 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jsch-0.1.18  -doc -examples -jikes -source 190 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/antlr-2.7.3  -source 1,316 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/bsh-2.0_beta1-r1  -gnome -kde 303 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jakarta-oro-2.0.8-r1  -doc -examples -jikes -source 337 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-collections-3.1  -doc -jikes -source 1,110 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-beanutils-1.6.1-r2  -doc -jikes -source 144 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-net-1.2.2-r1  -doc -jikes -source 174 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/ant-tasks-1.6.2-r9  -javamail -noantlr -nobcel -nobeanutils -nobsh -nocommonslogging -nocommonsnet -nojdepend -nojsch -nojython -nolog4j -nooro -noregexp -norhino -noxalan -noxerces 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-misc/mime-types-4 [3] 7 kB
[ebuild     U ] media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 [10.0.5] -nsplugin 6,487 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0-r2 [0.2.0] 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 40,143 kB

I figured the first place to start looking was that last new dev-java package. I popped on www.gentoo-portage.com and checked the reverse dependencies on dev-java/ant-tasks, which lists only dev-java/ant. Ant lists no reverse dependencies, so I went to go look if I had ant installed.

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# equery list ant
[ Searching for package 'ant' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] dev-java/ant-core-1.6.2-r5 (0)

No dev-java/ant, but there was this dev-java/ant-core, so I went to look that up. Turns out this is a dependency of the mysterious ant and ant-tasks packages which I don't have installed.

So the questions then are:
1.) Why does portage want to install dev-java/ant-tasks (and a long list of other dev-java packages that seem to go with it)?
2.) Where did I get ant-core from?

[ChrisWhite]

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echo "=dev-java/ant-tasks-1.6.2-r9" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

then see what complains

[SDraconis]

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echo "=dev-java/ant-tasks-1.6.2-r9" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

then see what complains

D'oh! Why didn't I think of that? Anyway, it seems that azurues-bin wants commons-cli which in turn wants ant-tasks. I'm not putting a solved on this just yet, because it's still puzzling now why azureus-bin suddenly needs this huge list of dev-java stuff when it emerged fine and was working fine before.

Edit: changed subject to match turn of discussion