Installing (not upgrading) www-apps/joomla-1.5.14 triggers an upgrade using webapp-config -U. The correct functionality should be that the joomla web application is simply installed on /usr/share/webapps/joomla/1.5.14 Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -av =www-apps/joomla-1.5.14 2. 3. Actual Results: During the install, emerge says: * vhosts USE flag not set - auto-installing using webapp-config * This is an upgrade * joomla-1.5.8 is already installed - upgrading * Running /usr/sbin/webapp-config -U -h localhost -u root -d /joomla joomla 1.5.14 * Upgrading joomla-1.5.8 to joomla-1.5.14 * Installed by root on 2009-01-31 03:05:29 * Config files owned by 0:0 Expected Results: ebuild should not have tried to upgrade the web app at this stage server paul # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/10.0/server, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-hardened-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.22-hardened-r8-i686-Intel-R-_Celeron-TM-_CPU_1300MHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:45:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2, 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/" LANG="en_GB.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl acpi apache2 bash-completion bzip2 bzlib cli cracklib crypt ctype dba dovecot-sasl dri evo fam fortran gpm iconv imap java5 libwww logrotate maildir mmx modules mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflection sasl session spl ssl sysfs syslog tcpd threads unicode userlocales vim vim-syntax x86 xml xmlrpc xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
if you do not want automagic installation, set USE=vhosts
