I have fully figured out what's going on, but as things stand, I notice that after emerging app-emulation/wine-* packages, a "random" version of wine gets selected. If I had to guess (without investigating), I'd say maybe the ordering of the list is shuffled by emerging, but maybe the app-emulation/wine-* packages just preserve the active list-index when merging a new package. Why I think so: I had these installed: app-emulation/wine-d3d9-2.12:2.12::gentoo app-emulation/wine-staging-2.12:2.12::gentoo app-emulation/wine-vanilla-2.13:2.13::gentoo app-eselect/eselect-wine-1.1:0::gentoo with -staging active. I observed that emerging -staging "automatically" moved me from -staging to -vanilla, and I'm pretty sure -- but not positive -- that the ordering of the list was altered.
(In reply to Greg Turner from comment #0) > I have fully figured out what's going on correction: have /not/ fully figured out what's going on :)
(In reply to Greg Turner from comment #1) > correction: have /not/ fully figured out what's going on :) Please reopen this bug report when you at least figure out what you think the bug is you're reporting. Because "wacky results" doesn't sufficiently describe it.
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #2) > (In reply to Greg Turner from comment #1) > > correction: have /not/ fully figured out what's going on :) > > Please reopen this bug report when you at least figure out what you think > the bug is you're reporting. Because "wacky results" doesn't sufficiently > describe it. I understand your reluctance about a vague bug report, but if you strip out all the speculative stuff my bug report is pretty concrete: Using the masked(?) wine-* packages and eselect-wine, when wine packages are merged, one's system is migrated to a different wine. So, let's say, Monday, I have selected wine-stable, and run emerge @world (or, just emerge -1a $(qlist -ISC wine)). On Tuesday, I will find, I am now on wine-d3d9 or some other thing. This suggests there is something wrong with the logic in pkg_prerm or pkg_postinst. At a glance, I wonder, might the heuristics in that code not parallelize safely -- but now I am speculating again so please ignore this paragraph :P
