When I do "emerge --newuse -pv world" these days, i get this output: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.8 [1.0.8_rc1] 1,881 kB [ebuild U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.8 [1.0.7] -doc -jack 666 kB [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.8 [1.0.6] 219 kB [ebuild U ] net-misc/wget-1.9.1-r3 [1.9-r2] -build -debug +ipv6 +nls -socks5 +ssl -static 1,291 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/bc-1.06-r6 [1.06-r5] -debug +readline -static 0 kB [ebuild U ] net-irc/xchat-2.4.1-r1 [2.4.1] -debug +ipv6 +mmx +nls +perl +python +ssl -tcltk -xchatdccserver -xchatnogtk -xchattext 0 kB Total size of downloads: 4,058 kB As I see, there no package with a new use flag there. Maybe it's got to do with the fact that I moved some use flags from /etc/make.conf to /etc/portage/package.use... fabian Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 2.
These are regular updates. In this case "emerge --newuse -pv world" == "emerge -pv world"