I finally figured out why portage keeps fluctuating between upgrading and downgrading these packages. It seems that every time I upgrade system or world, it isn't the right version. *sigh*
I added '-t' to my emerge and discovered a package that isn't in my keywords file. daevid edb # emerge -Davut world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.7-r1 [nomerge ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.7 +alsa -debug +esd +oss [nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.5 [ebuild UD] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.5-r1 [0.8.7] +alsa -debug +esd +oss 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB My /etc/portage/package.keywords contains media-libs/gstreamer ~x86 media-libs/gst-plugins ~x86 Adding "media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis" to the file made it stop being so obnoxious. So the real question is, is this a 'bug' or 'feature request' for portage. It seems it should have warned me somehow that -vorbis- isn't masked, yet the other packages are. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list