Historically, when an update to portage came available, portage would put it at the head of the list, build it first, then re-run emerge world command.
I've seen lately that this no longer happens, portage updates are any old place in the list just like all other packages. I'm wondering why this change happened, or if I somehow unknowingly set an option to disable the old behaviour )I'd liek it back). -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com