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