Portage 2.2_rc8 doesn't upgrade a package with emerge -avtuDN world and this package is an indirect dependency of xorg-x11 (in world) # emerge -avt1 rpm2targz These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0.0.2g [9.0.0.0g] 4 kB # equery depends rpm2targz [ Searching for packages depending on rpm2targz... ] dev-python/pyxf86config-0.3.34-r1 (>=app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r1) # equery depends pyxf86config [ Searching for packages depending on pyxf86config... ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r1 (X? >=dev-python/pyxf86config-0.3.34-r1) # equery depends hal [ Searching for packages depending on hal... ] - CUT - x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.2 (hal? sys-apps/hal) And xorg-x11 is in world.
See the --with-bdeps docs in `man emerge`. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 150238 ***