I avoided yesterday's downgrade from ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-5.9-r4 because it was obviously(?) a mistake.
This morning I just upgraded(?) ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-6.0-r1 and immediately after doing that, portage wants to downgrade(?) from 6.0-r1 back to 6.0. This comedy of errors would be funny if it weren't emblematic of the larger and very scary problem we all face in real life: computers now dominate every aspect of everything we do and what is expected of us by our employers, friends, family, and our government. (I refer to the government here in the US. Your government may vary.) Note that /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses/Changelog was last updated on April 6, several months ago. Rhetorical question: what is the purpose of a Changelog? Or any log, anywhere, like the captain's log on an oil tanker, for example, or an airliner, or in the IT department of the bank where your life savings are stored. Who last rebooted that server, and why? Who last updated ncurses, and why? Yes, I looked at the ebuild, which cites a bug report, which may or may not serve as the log I'm asking for, but doesn't this all seem too complicated to work smoothly for years without frequent fsck-ups? Now I have to go to work and face exactly the same fsck-ups there that I face when I update my gentoo machines, and that puts me in a bad mood.
