Might be a freaky dependency thing, usually something to do with different
SLOTs of the same software, you can typically figure it out using etcat
(it's part of app-portage/gentoolkit). But, it's simpler to just use the
-U ( --upgradeonly ) flag with -pu, that way it won't downgrade at all.


Stu

Donn Miller wrote:

> Anybody know what's up with *vim and wget? During a recent "emerge
> sync", these packages were upgraded. I emerge sync'd with a different
> rsync server, and know I'm seeing these packages recently upgraded with
> emerge -u world on a list of downgrades:
>
>
> emerge -pu world
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild UD] app-editors/vim-core-6.2-r4 [6.2-r5]
> [ebuild UD] app-editors/gvim-6.2-r3 [6.2-r5]
> [ebuild UD] net-misc/wget-1.9-r1 [1.9-r2]
> [ebuild UD] app-editors/vim-6.2-r3 [6.2-r5]