>> I'm synced up and emerge world doesn't want to emerge anything, but >> python-updater wants to re-emerge an old version of libxslt which is >> currently installed, which looks like it should have been updated via >> emerge world: >> >> # equery depends libxslt >> [ Searching for packages depending on libxslt... ] >> dev-lang/php-5.2.6-r2 (xsl? dev-libs/libxslt) >> dev-libs/glib-2.16.3-r1 (doc? >=dev-libs/libxslt-1.0) >> >> Can anyone explain this? >> > > As you stated correctly: phython-updater wants *re*-emerge libxslt, > because something, in this case phython, on which libxlst depends has > changed. > > There is no update of libxslt, so why sgould emerge -u world bother?
But there is: # emerge -pv libxslt These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.24 [1.1.20] USE="crypt python -debug -examples%" 3,286 kB That's the confusing part. - Grant
