It seems, that only packages of the top slots are updated... Here some output: stuga1 python # emerge -uDp python These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! stuga1 python # equery l python [ Searching for package 'python' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.3.5 (2.3) [I--] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.4.2 (2.4) [I--] [ ] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 (0) stuga1 python # emerge -p =python-2.3.5-r2 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r2 [2.3.5] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4698 ***