When upgrading my system tetex is marked as to has be upgraded. If I have version 1.0.7-r13 installed portage says it has to be upgraded by version 2.0.2-r1. After doing that it says tetex version 2.0.2-r1 has to be replaced by version 1.0.7-r13 and so on and so on ... If you need some extra information about my system, don't hesitate asking me. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -uD tetex 2.emerge -uD tetex 3. Actual Results: the tetex version is the original one Expected Results: tetex 2.0.2-r1 installed Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.0-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-gentoo i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3. 1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ftp.belnet. be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http: //ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio. org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.be.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb crypt cups dvd encode esd foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnutella gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp postgres python qt quicktime radeon readline samba scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Did you install dvipdfm? If so, see bug #36019
Thanks,that did the trick. Strange this dependency isn't caught when upgrading from the first version to the other. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36019 ***