autoconf cycles between versions at every 'emerge -u world' or 'emerge -u --deep world' or 'emerge autoconf'. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # emerge autoconf Actual Results: # emerge -pu world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild UD] sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 [2.57a] autoconf alternates between version 2.57.r1 and 2.57a Expected Results: Stay with one version. # emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1900+ distcc 2.11 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://gentoo.noved.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg gnome libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde opengl mozilla cdr mysql athena -motif"
It appears that autoconf-2.57-r1 is a dependency for k3b-0.9-r1.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30062 ***
