I think that you can do:

emerge -pUD world

which will keep portage from downgrading anything

-daniel

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 10:01, Susie wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:50:56 +0200
> Alexander Futasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > What are you talking about?
> 
> I unmasked openbox-2.3.0 in it's ebuild.  Then emerged it.  I then put
> into my world file "=x11-wm/openbox-2.3.0" to prevent it from removing
> that version(ie downgrading).  But despite that it fetched
> openbox-2.1.3-r4.  Now if you look in the changelog for openbox the
> 2.3.0 is simply masked for those that don't use xft2.  I have xft2
> installed so not a problem.  When I installed version 2.3.0 I had
> uninstalled 2.1.3-r4.  But then later did an "emerge rsync && emerge
> -puD world"(aka --pretend --update --deep).  Then it insisted on the
> earlier version overwriting the openbox in /usr/bin(as it isn't
> attaching version numbers to the executable).  I want it to stop doing
> that.<sigh>  I suppose my only option at this point is to leave both in
> and unmask the 2.3.0 again and have it overwrite the earlier version. 


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