Created attachment 336962 [details] emerge --info eix The little numbers in square brackets indicating which overlay a particular version of a package comes from are freaking out. For example, eix sys-libs/glibc produces [I] sys-libs/glibc Available versions: (2.2) 2.3.6-r5^s[3] 2.4-r4^s[5] **2.5.1^s[7] 2.6.1^s[9] (~)2.7-r2^s[11] 2.8_p20080602-r1^s[13] (~)2.9_p20081201-r3^s 2.10.1-r1^s 2.11.3^s (~)2.12.1-r3^s 2.12.2^s (~)2.13-r2^s 2.13-r4^s (~)2.14^s (~)2.14.1-r2^s 2.14.1-r3^s (~)2.15-r1^s 2.15-r2^s 2.15-r3^s (~)2.16.0^s **2.17^s **9999^s {:+glibc-compat20 build debug erandom gd glibc-compat20 glibc-omitfp hardened multilib nptl nptlonly nptlonly} nscd profile selinux systemtap vanilla CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS="headers-only"} Installed versions: 2.16.0(2.2)^s(07:55:24 AM 01/10/2013)(multilib -debug -gd -hardened -profile -selinux -systemtap -vanilla CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS="-headers-only") Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html Description: GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library [14] "toolchain" /var/lib/layman/toolchain I've run eix-update to be certain that it was not simply a case of outdated information. I have attached emerge --info eix as well as an example run.
Created attachment 336964 [details] eix gcc note the rapidly increasing numbers
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 452548 ***
