On 18:36 Thu 16 Jun , Graham Murray wrote: > Sometimes a package will upgrade/downgrade alternately when running > 'emerge -uD world'. One such that is happening to me right now is > libtheora. media-lib/xine-lib has a 'straight' (no version) dependency > on libtheora, which causes emerge to update to the latest > version. media-plugins/gst-plugins-theora has a dependency on a > specific version of libtheora, which causes the next emerge to > downgrade libtheora to that version. And so the cycle continues. > > Should portage not recognise the specific version requirement and > not perform an upgrade to a later version?
Are you sure you don't have libtheora in your world file? I've only ever seen this happen when people have the package in question in their world file. Not sure whether or not it can happen if you don't (but I guess I'll find out if it's not in your world file) -- djm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
