Try using equery depends to see what wants them.

The noemerge I assume means it's already in and uptodate.  It's a utility that 
a perl upgrade mentions and cleans out old versions.

On Sunday 11 December 2005 16:22, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> On Sunday 11 December 2005 14:49, a tiny voice compelled Brett I. Holcomb
> to
>
> write:
> > Okay - I figured you did but wasn't sure.
> >
> > If you have a space before the asterisk it's a problem and it appears you
> > do - at least in the email.
> >
> > On Sunday 11 December 2005 11:13, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > > On Saturday 10 December 2005 23:07, a tiny voice compelled Brett I.
> > > Holcomb to
> > >
> > > write:
> > > > You say you did it in your home directory but portage looks at
> > > > /etc/portage for the files such as package.keywords.  Did you move it
> > > > to /etc/portage?
> > > >
> > > > On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:02, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > > > > Bump
> > >
> > > Oh yes I did move it to the right place. should have made that clearer.
> > >
> > > $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords
> >
> > snip
> >
> > > kde-base/kdeartwork-wallpapers ~x86
> > > kde-base/kdebase * ~x86
> > >
> > > I cut about 2/3 of the list, but I do notice several entries like the
> > > last. I'm wondering if that is my problem. (kde-base/kdebase * ~x86)
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards, Ernie
> > > 100% Microsoft and Intel free
> > >
> > >  11:06:44 up 1 day,  2:30,  2 users,  load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.09
> > > Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
> >
> > --
> >
> > Brett I. Holcomb
>
> You're right, some were right but the majority were wrong (<space>*. I
> fixed that but my box still wants to downgrade 50 or 60m packages. I tried
> using --tree but see no reason that these packages are being brought in. I
> do have a line in the output that I don't understand, and maybe someone can
> explain that too. I'll include a couple of lines before and after.
>
> [ebuild     UD]       sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 [1.4.4]
> [ebuild     UD]       sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-3-r1 [3.2]
> [nomerge      ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.01
> [ebuild     UD]       dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r8 [5.8.7-r2]
> [ebuild     UD]        sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6-r1 [5.8.7]
>
> Where does the "nomerge" come from?
> --
> Regards, Ernie
> 100% Microsoft and Intel free
>
>  16:12:57 up 1 day,  7:36,  2 users,  load average: 0.11, 0.28, 0.60
> Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+

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