I've just updated my portage-tree with eix-sync && emerge -vuDNp world which gave following result : * Removing old portage-cache in /var/cache/edb/dep ... [ ok ] * Running emerge --sync ... [ ok ] * Copying old /var/cache/eix cache to /var/cache/eix.previous ... [ ok ] * Running update-eix ... [ ok ] Diffing databases (12111 - 12112 packages) [*>] == app-crypt/cfs (~1.4.1.14 ~1.4.1.17 -> 1.4.1.17): Cryptographic Filesystem [<] == app-emacs/eieio (0.17 -> [M]0.17): Enhanced Integration of Emacs Interpreted Objects [<] == app-emacs/semantic (1.4.4-r1 -> [M]1.4.4-r1 [M]~1.4.4-r2): The Semantic Bovinator is a lexer, parser-generator, and parser written in Emacs Lisp [U] == dev-lang/yasm (0.6.0@13.07.2007; 0.6.0 -> 0.6.1): assembler that supports amd64 [>] == dev-ruby/fastthread (0.5.3.1 -> 1.0): Optimized replacement for thread.rb primitives [>] == media-gfx/llgal (0.11.4 -> 0.13.13): Command-line static web gallery generator [U] == media-libs/t1lib (5.0.2(5)@08.09.2007; 1.3.1(1) 5.0.2(5) -> 1.3.1(1) 5.0.2-r1(5)): A Type 1 Font Rasterizer Library for UNIX/X11 [>] == net-misc/openswan (2.4.7 -> 2.4.9): Open Source implementation of IPsec for the Linux operating system (was SuperFreeS/WAN). [>] == sys-apps/acl (2.2.39-r1 -> 2.2.44): Access control list utilities, libraries and headers [>] == sys-apps/attr (2.4.32 -> 2.4.38): Extended attributes tools [>] == sys-apps/parted (1.8.6 -> 1.8.8): Create, destroy, resize, check, copy partitions and file systems [>] == sys-cluster/keepalived (1.1.13 -> 1.1.13-r1): add a strong & robust keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project [>] == sys-fs/fuse (2.6.4-r1 -> 2.7.0): An interface for filesystems implemented in userspace. [>] == sys-fs/sshfs-fuse (1.6 -> 1.7): Fuse-filesystem utilizing the sftp service. [>] == sys-fs/xfsprogs (2.8.11 -> 2.9.3): xfs filesystem utilities [>] == www-apache/mod_proxy_html (2.4.3 -> 3.0.0): An Apache2 module to rewrite links in html pages behind a reverse proxy. [N] >> net-misc/s3cmd (~0.9.4): command line S3 client These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/t1lib-5.0.2-r1 [5.0.2] USE="X -doc" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB As you can see, dev-lang/yasm won't be updated - after that, i ran emerge -ep world and found more packages: [ebuild U ] x11-misc/makedepend-1.0.1 [1.0.0] [ebuild U ] x11-apps/xhost-1.0.2 [1.0.1] [ebuild U ] dev-java/xjavac-20041208-r5 [20041208-r4] Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. eix-sync 2. emerge -vuDNp world Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:30:09 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r5 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/initng/daemon /etc/initng/net /etc/initng/system /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage /usr/local/initng-portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa amr aotuv arts asf bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread encode fam ffmpeg flac gdbm gif gnutls hal history i8x0 iconv jabber java jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal latex mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack musicbrainz ncurses nls no-seamonkey nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support quicktime readline real samba sdl session spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode urandom usb userlocales v4l vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs x264 x86 xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INITNG_PLUGINS="also bash_launcher chdir chroot conflict cpout critical ctrlaltdel daemon_clean debug_commands envparser find fmon fstat history idleprobe initctl interactive iparser last limit lockfile logfile netdev netprobe ngc4 ngcs nge pause provide reload renice rlparser simple_launcher stcmd stdout suid syncron syslog sysreq unneeded usplash" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
world != everything if you want everything, then add everything to your world
I thought "emerge --deep world" would update world + dependencies and "my" world contains packages that depend on these four?
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/faq.xml
Ahhh, thank you - --with-bdeps=y "fixed" that for me and sorry for false alarm.