Over the last weeks portage kept up- and in the next world-update downgrading gst-plugins. An emerge -puDt world also revealed that portage actually even merges gst plugins twice per world update if two updated packages depend on gst-plugins. In any case, portage switches between two gst-plugins versions every time I do an emerge -uD world (without sync inbetween). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. oggvorbis and alsa in use (?) 2. gstreamer in use 3. have gnome 2.8 dependencies in keywords and installed (?) 4. emerge -puD world Actual Results: These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] x11-misc/synaptics-0.13.6 [0.13.5] [nomerge ] gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner-2.8.2 [nomerge ] gnome-base/nautilus-2.8.0 [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.2 [ebuild UD] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.2 [0.8.3] [ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.5 [0.8.3] [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.5-r1 [0.8.3] [nomerge ] net-www/netscape-flash-6.0.81 [nomerge ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r11 [ebuild UD] dev-util/intltool-0.31.2 [0.31.3] [nomerge ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.6 [ebuild U ] dev-util/dialog-1.0.20040731 [0.9_beta20031002] Expected Results: As you can see it's about to replace version 0.8.3 with 0.8.5 AND(??) then 0.8.2 (tree in reverse order). Unsetting the oggvorbis flag solves this problem, so this might be an ebuild problem. Anyways, portage *should* complain about this situation and not merge stuff twice or switch between two versions every next world update. After having merged the above packages with -uD world, this is what another -uD world would give me: These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner-2.8.2 [nomerge ] gnome-base/nautilus-2.8.0 [nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.2 [ebuild UD] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.2 [0.8.5-r1] root, root/ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc distlocks" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr encode f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint glut gnome gnomedb gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mono motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba slang spell sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb x86 xml2 xprint xv xvid zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13632 ***
