gnome-base/gnome-2.10.1 [_pre0] should to depend on >=gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.10.1 ... You've got an ebuild for gnome-desktop-2.10.1, might as well pull it in. [Noticed this because the version number as shown by gnome-about was wrong] AfC Sydney
# grep gnome-desktop /usr/portage/gnome-base/gnome/gnome-2.10.1_pre0.ebuild >=gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.10 You forgot to package.unmask the newer gnome-desktop version, didn
# grep gnome-desktop /usr/portage/gnome-base/gnome/gnome-2.10.1_pre0.ebuild >=gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.10 You forgot to package.unmask the newer gnome-desktop version, didn´t you?
No, my unmask is >=gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.9.92 . Good thinking though. The other possibility was that I already had gnome-desktop-2.10.0 installed, which was in fact the case. The point I was trying to make is that gnome-2.10_pre0 should RDEPEND on 2.10.1 to force the upgrade (given that's my perception of how the gnome meta-builds have worked) AfC
Fixed now. Thanks for the notice.