I had some 5.x.x version of imagemagick installed (i'm sorry i don't know, i realized later this was a bug). Performing an emerge -pv world doesn't show the current imagemagick version (6.0.7.1) as avaiable update. Performing an emerge -pv imagemagick is fine. This is kinda weird to me. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a previos imagemagick version emerged 2. emerge -pv imagemagick shows current update avaiable (6.0.7.1) 3. emerge -pv world doesn't show current update avaiable Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mmmx -m3dnow -msse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mmmx -m3dnow -msse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X aalib acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dga divx4linux encode esd fbcon fftw flash foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gpm gtk2 imap imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww live lzo mad mcal mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg mpi mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang slp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb wmf x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib"
If you doesn't have imagemagick in world file (/var/cache/edb/world) then it won't update. You can use `emerge -pvuD world` instead to force emerge to consider the entire dependency tree of packages.