When you run emerge in ways that will install multiple ebuilds, you need to be able to specifically tell it not to install certain packages (or upgrade, downgrade, remove, or otherwise touch them) For instance: I had problems with X and eventually solved some of them by installing 4.3.99. It used to be that using -uU would stop it from replacing 4.3.99 with 4.3.0, but now it seems to have dissapeared from the portage tree, so -uU doesn't work anymore. Thus, if I could run emerge with something like: emerge -uU --not xfree then I could continue to update my packages automatically without it destroying X, which is the worst thing I can think of to have to keep changing. (Config files are screwy) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install xfree 4.3.99 somehow 2.Run emerge -pUu world 3.See that it still wants to downgrade xfree and theres no way to stop it except not using -u and doing it one by one Actual Results: It tries to emerge xfree 4.3.0 despite the downgrade Expected Results: It should have a way to stop it from changing xfree at all until theres an upgrade
4.3.99 has disappeared because you're supposed to be using xorg-x11 :P `emerge -i x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r7` *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16342 ***
