If emerge is directed to prefer binary packages by default -- typically by "--usepkg" in EMERGE_DEFAUT_OPTS in /etc/make.conf -- python-update will emerge most packages with no effects because they are not rebuilded. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: start python-update with --usepkg set. Actual Results: emerge will just re-install the affected packages Expected Results: emerge have to recompile the affected packages May be work-arounded by "EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="" python-updater". Maybe the call to emerge inside python-updater should be prefixed by an "--igonre-default-opts"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 232304 ***