20 August 2008
emerge world reinstalling everything… not anymore :-)
I’m running ~x86 Gentoo here, eix-sync && emerge -Dav world every few days till something strange started happening. Portage wanted to reinstall everything, I mean, hundreds of packages to the same version as before, no new use, no new anything, just reinstall all packages for the pleasure of compiling and heating up my Macbook pro 
Well, now I figured out that adding the “-u” flag to emerge restored the expected behaviour.
Maybe I was supposed to use “-u” since day one but the fact is I didn’t, and emerge worked fine until now. Anyway, if any of you face the same issue, try “-u”.
Cheers,
Fleury
