Helmut Jarausch writes:
> My 'standard' way of updating is
> emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree
> @system @world
>
> but it didn't update anything.
>
> Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have
> newer versions, and indeed,
> emerge -auv1 -j4 --keep-going $(qlist -IC kde-base/)
> upgraded 24 packages.
>
> Where does this discrepancy come from?
I guess those packages are not in your /var/lib/portage/world file (or in
a set in /var/lib/portage/world_sets), and nothing in there depends on
them. Try emerge -p --depclean and see if they are listed. If so, use
emerge -n to add them to world.
Wonko