Can I simply remove the masked and deprecated packages?

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mgnut57 · Post by **mgnut57** » Sat Jan 17, 2026 4:52 pm

emerge --depclean is showing a bunch of Perl packages that cannot be removed. There are a bunch of masked and deprecated packages on my system, I suspect that I should simply unmerge them, but don't want to do that before checking.

I have run the full update/newuse emerge:
emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world

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# emerge --depclean --ask

 * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious
 * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always
 * be kept.  They can be manually added to this set with
 * `emerge --noreplace <atom>`.  Packages that are listed in
 * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by
 * depclean, even if they are part of the world set.
 * 
 * As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages
 * unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved.  As a
 * consequence of this, it often becomes necessary to run 
 * `emerge --update --newuse --deep @world` prior to depclean.

Calculating dependencies... done!
 * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
 * the following required packages not being installed:
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-podlators-5.10.200_rc
 * 
 *   =dev-lang/perl-5.40* pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-File-Path-2.180.0-r3
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Devel-CheckLib-1.160.0-r1
 * 
 *   =dev-lang/perl-5.40* pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-Module-Metadata-1.0.38
 * 
 *   =dev-lang/perl-5.40* pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280.240
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/File-ShareDir-1.118.0-r1
 * 
 *   =dev-lang/perl-5.40* pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.510.0-r1
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/ExtUtils-CChecker-0.120.0-r1
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/YAML-Tiny-1.760.0-r1
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/XS-Parse-Keyword-0.480.0
 * 
 *   =dev-lang/perl-5.40* pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-Text-ParseWords-3.310.0-r3
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/TermReadKey-2.380.0-r1
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Text-WrapI18N-0.60.0-r2
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/File-Slurper-0.14.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/List-MoreUtils-0.430.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.70.0_p20181130
 * 
 *   =dev-lang/perl-5.40* pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-2.150.10-r9
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Text-CSV_XS-1.540.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/SGMLSpm-1.1-r2
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-Getopt-Long-2.580.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Exporter-Tiny-1.6.2
 * 
 *   =dev-lang/perl-5.40* pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-version-0.993.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Class-Inspector-1.360.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Unicode-LineBreak-2019.1.0-r1
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/List-MoreUtils-XS-0.430.0-r1
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Syntax-Keyword-Try-0.300.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-File-Path-2.180.0-r3
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/MIME-Charset-1.13.1
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.510.0-r1
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-Module-Metadata-1.0.38
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280.240
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/File-ShareDir-Install-0.140.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Config-AutoConf-0.320.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Text-CSV-2.40.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-Text-ParseWords-3.310.0-r3
 * 
 *   =dev-lang/perl-5.40* pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta-2.150.10-r8
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Module-Build-0.423.400-r4
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Capture-Tiny-0.500.0
 * 
 *   =dev-lang/perl-5.40* pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-podlators-5.10.200_rc
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-2.150.10-r9
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Pod-Parser-1.660.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Params-Util-1.102.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Text-CharWidth-0.40.0-r2
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/Canary-Stability-2013.0.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-version-0.993.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     app-text/po4a-0.73-r1
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-JSON-PP-4.160.0-r3
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     dev-perl/PerlIO-utf8_strict-0.10.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     perl-core/Getopt-Long-2.580.0
 * 
 *   dev-lang/perl:0/5.40= pulled in by:
 *     virtual/perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta-2.150.10-r8
 * 
 * Have you forgotten to do a complete update prior to depclean? The
 * most comprehensive command for this purpose is as follows:
 * 
 *   emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world
 * 
 * Note that the --with-bdeps=y option is not required in many
 * situations. Refer to the emerge manual page (run `man emerge`)
 * for more information about --with-bdeps.
 * 
 * Also, note that it may be necessary to manually uninstall
 * packages that no longer exist in the repository, since it may not
 * be possible to satisfy their dependencies.

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# equery list "perl*"
 * Searching for perl* ...
[IP-] [  ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.31-r2:0
[IP-] [  ] dev-lang/perl-5.42.0-r1:0/5.42
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-CPAN-2.380.0:0
[I--] [??] virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-2.150.10-r9:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Carp-1.540.0-r2:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.213.0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.213.0-r1:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Data-Dumper-2.192.0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Digest-1.200.0-r3:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Digest-MD5-2.590.0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-6.40.0-r2:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Encode-3.210.0-r2:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Exporter-5.790.0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280.240:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.760.0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.510.0-r1:0
[I--] [??] virtual/perl-File-Path-2.180.0-r3:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.940.0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-File-Temp-0.231.100-r1:0
[I--] [??] virtual/perl-Getopt-Long-2.580.0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-IO-1.550.0-r1:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-IO-Compress-2.213.0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.420.0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-JSON-PP-4.160.0-r3:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.160.100_rc-r2:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Math-BigInt-2.5.2:0
[I--] [??] virtual/perl-Module-Metadata-1.0.38:0
[I--] [??] virtual/perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta-2.150.10-r8:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.680.100_rc:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Storable-3.370.0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.500.0-r1:0
[I--] [??] virtual/perl-Text-ParseWords-3.310.0-r3:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Time-Local-1.350.0-r1:0
[IP-] [M ] virtual/perl-Unicode-Collate-1.310.0-r3:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-XSLoader-0.320.0-r2:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-libnet-3.150.0-r2:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-parent-0.244.0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-podlators-5.10.200_rc:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-version-0.993.0:0

Post by **sam_** » Sat Jan 17, 2026 5:30 pm

No, please don't do that. It's okay to emerge --ask --depclean XYZ (not --unmerge) if something is masked for removal and in your world file, but in this case, these are things where we need to figure out why something still depends on them.

Please show the output of emerge --info and emerge --pretend --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world.

mgnut57 · Post by **mgnut57** » Sat Jan 17, 2026 6:25 pm

sam_ wrote: Please show the output of emerge --info and emerge --pretend --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world.

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#  emerge --info 
Portage 3.0.72 (python 3.13.11-final-0, default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr, gcc-14, glibc-2.41-r6, 6.6.52-gentoogeneric x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-6.6.52-gentoogeneric-x86_64-Intel-R-_Celeron-R-_CPU_J1900_@_1.99GHz-with-glibc2.41
KiB Mem:     7850424 total,    385220 free
KiB Swap:    4194300 total,   4193276 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:45:00 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: 210a865c5a3d1ab63ecf67d846027019e0289785
sh bash 5.3_p9
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.44 p4) 2.44.0
distcc[10972] (dcc_trace_version) distcc 3.4 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu; built May 15 2025 23:29:12 [disabled]
ccache version 4.12.1 [disabled]
app-misc/pax-utils:        1.3.8::gentoo
app-shells/bash:           5.3_p9::gentoo
dev-build/autoconf:        2.72-r6::gentoo
dev-build/automake:        1.17-r2::gentoo, 1.18.1::gentoo
dev-build/cmake:           4.1.4::gentoo
dev-build/libtool:         2.5.4::gentoo
dev-build/make:            4.4.1-r102::gentoo
dev-build/meson:           1.9.1::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:             5.42.0-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/python:           3.11.14::gentoo, 3.13.11::gentoo, 3.14.0_p1::gentoo
dev-lang/rust-bin:         1.87.0::gentoo, 1.89.0::gentoo, 1.91.0::gentoo
dev-util/ccache:           4.12.1::gentoo
llvm-core/llvm:            20.1.8::gentoo, 21.1.8::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:       2.18::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:           0.62.10::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:          2.46::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:        2.44-r3::gentoo, 2.45.1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.6::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:             14.3.1_p20250801::gentoo, 15.2.1_p20251122::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:      2.12.2::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers:  6.12::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:            2.41-r6::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    volatile: True
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: 
    sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
    sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 3

Binary Repositories:

binhost
    priority: 9999
    sync-uri: https://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_STATE_HOME"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs buildpkg-live config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles getbinpkg ipc-sandbox merge-sync merge-wait multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox pkgdir-index-trusted preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs"
LEX="flex"
LINGUAS="en en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS="bzip2"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
USE="X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 amr apm bzip2 cdda cdr cet clearpasswd cups dbus dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread elogind foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gphoto2 gstreamer gtk2 hpcups hvm iconv imap ipod ipv6 jpeg libtirpc lm_sensors logrotate mad mbox mjpeg mmx mp3 mpeg multilib ncurses nforce2 nfs nfsidmap nfsv3 nfsv4 nfsv41 nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc ogg openmp pam pcre pmu png ppds readline samba seccomp spell split-usr sse sse2 ssl swat test-rust tiff truetype udisks unicode usb v4l2 vcd vim-syntax wmf xattr zlib" ABI_X86="64 32" ADA_TARGET="gcc_15" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_anon authn_dbm authn_file authz_dbm authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax navcom oceanserver oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 tsip tripmate tnt ublox" GUILE_SINGLE_TARGET="3-0" GUILE_TARGETS="3-0" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en-GB en-US" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb text" LLVM_TARGETS="X86" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php8-3" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres17" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_13" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_13" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby32 ruby33" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tarpit sysrq proto logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  ADDR2LINE, AR, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LD, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, NM, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PYTHONPATH, RANLIB, READELF, RUSTFLAGS, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS

Interesting, I thought that I had run a full update, but I must be mistaken. I'll run that now and see what happens:

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# emerge --pretend --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
Dependency resolution took 409.51 s (backtrack: 3/20).

[binary     U  ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280.242-r2-1 [0.280.240]
[binary     U  ] dev-go/go-md2man-2.0.7-2 [2.0.3]
[binary     U  ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.570.0-1 [3.510.0-r1]
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/Text-CharWidth-0.40.0-r2-5 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/YAML-Tiny-1.760.0-r1-2 
[binary  rR    ] virtual/perl-JSON-PP-4.160.0-r3-2 
[binary     U  ] dev-perl/Capture-Tiny-0.500.0-r1-2 [0.500.0]
[binary     U  ] app-text/mandoc-1.14.6-r1-1 [1.14.6]
[binary  N     ] app-text/scdoc-1.11.4-1 
[binary     U  ] virtual/perl-Text-ParseWords-3.310.0-r4-2 [3.310.0-r3]
[binary     U  ] virtual/perl-File-Path-2.180.0-r4-2 [2.180.0-r3]
[binary     U  ] virtual/perl-Module-Metadata-1.0.38-r1-2 [1.0.38]
[binary     U  ] virtual/perl-podlators-6.0.2-1 [5.10.200_rc]
[binary     U  ] virtual/perl-version-0.993.300-1 [0.993.0]
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/Class-Inspector-1.360.0-5 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/Exporter-Tiny-1.6.2-5 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/File-ShareDir-Install-0.140.0-5 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/MIME-Charset-1.13.1-5 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/PerlIO-utf8_strict-0.10.0-5 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/Pod-Parser-1.660.0-5 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/TermReadKey-2.380.0-r1-5 
[binary     U  ] dev-perl/Text-CSV_XS-1.610.0-2 [1.540.0]
[binary     U  ] dev-perl/Text-WrapI18N-0.60.0-r3-1 [0.60.0-r2]
[binary     U  ] virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-2.150.10-r11-2 [2.150.10-r9]
[binary  rR    ] app-containers/containerd-2.1.4-2 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/Canary-Stability-2013.0.0-5 
[binary     U  ] dev-perl/Module-Build-0.423.400-r5-2 [0.423.400-r4]
[binary     U  ] dev-perl/File-Slurper-0.14.0-r1-1 [0.14.0] USE="-minimal%" 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/Devel-CheckLib-1.160.0-r1-3 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/Unicode-LineBreak-2019.1.0-r1-2 
[binary     U  ] dev-perl/Text-CSV-2.60.0-2 [2.40.0]
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/Config-AutoConf-0.320.0-5 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/ExtUtils-CChecker-0.120.0-r1-3 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/SGMLSpm-1.1-r2-5 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/List-MoreUtils-XS-0.430.0-r1-2 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/Params-Util-1.102.0-5 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/List-MoreUtils-0.430.0-5 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/File-ShareDir-1.118.0-r1-2 
[binary     U  ] dev-perl/XS-Parse-Keyword-0.490.0-r1-1 [0.480.0]
[binary     U  ] dev-perl/Syntax-Keyword-Try-0.310.0-1 [0.300.0]
[binary     U  ] dev-libs/libgit2-1.9.2-1 [1.9.1]
[binary     U  ] dev-util/cargo-c-0.10.16-1 [0.10.13-r1]
[binary   R    ] x11-base/xcb-proto-1.17.0-13  PYTHON_TARGETS="-python3_14%" 
[binary  rR    ] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.70.0_p20181130-2 
[ebuild     U  ] sys-libs/pam_wrapper-1.1.8 [1.1.5] PYTHON_TARGETS="-python3_14%" 
[binary     U  ] app-text/po4a-0.74-r1-2 [0.73-r1]
[ebuild   R    ] media-libs/a52dec-0.7.4-r9  USE="(-djbfft%)" 
[binary     U  ] dev-python/pyparsing-3.2.5-1 [3.2.3]
[binary     U  ] dev-python/cython-3.1.7-1 [3.0.12-r1] USE="-test-full%" PYTHON_TARGETS="(-python3_13t) -python3_14% (-python3_14t)" 
[ebuild   R    ] dev-python/fasteners-0.20  PYTHON_TARGETS="(-python3_11%)" 
[binary     U  ] dev-util/maturin-1.10.2-1 [1.8.3] PYTHON_TARGETS="-python3_14%" 
[binary     U  ] dev-build/scons-4.10.1-1 [4.9.1] PYTHON_TARGETS="-python3_14%" 
[binary     U  ] dev-python/sip-6.15.1-1 [6.12.0]
[binary     U  ] dev-python/pyqt-builder-1.19.1-1 [1.18.2]
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WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:

dev-python/hatchling:0

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    >=dev-python/hatchling-1.27.0[python_targets_python3_11(-),python_targets_python3_13(-)] required by (dev-python/hatch-vcs-0.5.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11 python3_13 (-pypy3_11) -python3_12 (-python3_13t) -python3_14 (-python3_14t)"
                                                                                            
    >=dev-python/hatchling-1.27.0[python_targets_python3_11(-),python_targets_python3_13(-)] required by (dev-python/urllib3-2.6.3:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-brotli -http2 -test -verify-provenance -zstd" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11 python3_13 (-pypy3_11) -python3_12 -python3_14"
                                                                                            

dev-python/editables:0

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    >=dev-python/editables-0.3[python_targets_python3_11(-),python_targets_python3_13(-)] required by (dev-python/hatchling-1.27.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11 python3_13 (-pypy3_11) -python3_12 (-python3_13t) -python3_14 (-python3_14t)"
                                                                                         

dev-python/pathspec:0

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    >=dev-python/pathspec-0.10.1[python_targets_python3_11(-),python_targets_python3_13(-)] required by (dev-python/hatchling-1.27.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11 python3_13 (-pypy3_11) -python3_12 (-python3_13t) -python3_14 (-python3_14t)"
                                                                                           


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    =dev-python/pyqt5-5.15.11 declarative multimedia network opengl printsupport -serialport svg
    =dev-python/pyqt5-5.15.11 declarative multimedia network opengl printsupport python_targets_python3_12 -python_targets_python3_14 -serialport svg -webchannel
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NOTE: The --binpkg-respect-use=n option will prevent emerge
      from ignoring these binary packages if possible.
      Using --binpkg-respect-use=y will silence this warning.

!!! The following installed packages are masked:
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.72::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2023-12-14)
# Gentoo's kernel maintainers have decided to discontinue gentoo-sources and
# gentoo-kernel for old kernel LTS branches because of the resources to require
# testing and patching them, combined with changing kernel lifecycles.
#
# The new policy is to support kernels with genpatches for 3 years after their
# release.
#
# Specifically, 4.14/4.19/5.4 have been dropped. See https://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=315
# and http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2018/08/24/what-stable-kernel-should-i-use/.
#
# sys-kernel/vanilla-sources will continue to be provided for all branches
# until they reach formal upstream EOL.
#

For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

mgnut57 · Post by **mgnut57** » Sat Jan 17, 2026 8:07 pm

sam_ wrote:No, please don't do that. It's okay to emerge --ask --depclean XYZ (not --unmerge) if something is masked for removal and in your world file, but in this case, these are things where we need to figure out why something still depends on them.

Please show the output of emerge --info and emerge --pretend --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world.

Running emerge --info and emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world fixed the issue.

Thanks for your help.