I'm using portage-2.0.49-r4 and one of the more recent portage updates has caused it to stop honoring the --upgradeonly flag. It now downgrades things that I don't want to have downgraded. This is annoying. There also seems to be some bizzarre circular thing with gnome-themes. It blocks, so I remove the package to emerge world, and the first thing that emerge world does is install gnome-themes again. No matter what I remove, it reinstalls the packages that cause the blockage - how can this be fixed? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
-U implies -u, if there isn't a better solution it will ignore -U. It won't let you break your system without force. Commit another bug if you have issues with gnome things\ still.
Like I said, it upgraded gtk when I did an emerge system, and then tried to downgrade it immediately after when I did an emerge world. Also, in previous versions -U would NOT try to downgrade things I had upgraded using a specific path to an ebuild, like gnumeric and abiword which I wanted higher versions of so I could test them. Now, it wants to downgrade them! Lots of people in forums have noticed this change. This is a BUG! It does NOT work the way it did before. I fixed the gnome/gtk downgrade problem by emerging just gnome and upgrading it, instead of world. That seems very odd. -- TARO!
