Hi there.

emerge -up --deep world gives me

[ebuild    UD] gnome-base/gnome-panel-1.4.2-r2 [2.2.0.1-r1] 

I don't think that it's really a good idea to downgrade that far, right?
;) Any hints what could cause the problem?

Another thing quite funny is that everytime I run emerge -u wold portage
switches netpbm's version. Currently I get this:

[ebuild    UD] media-libs/netpbm-9.12-r4 [10.11.5] 

Just downgrading it and running emerge -up --deep world again turns the
versions and wants to upgrade netpbm back to the prior version. Any
suggestions on that?

Thanks for your help,
Ben

The complete output of my current emerge -up --deep world:

blafasel root # emerge -up --deep world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    U ] dev-util/indent-2.2.9 [2.2.6] 
[ebuild    UD] gnome-base/gnome-panel-1.4.2-r2 [2.2.0.1-r1] 
[ebuild    U ] sys-libs/slang-1.4.8 [1.4.5-r2] 
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-3.2.3-r2 [3.2.3-r1] 
[ebuild    U ] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16_pre9 [0.1.16_pre8] 
[ebuild    U ] net-fs/samba-2.2.8_pre1 [2.2.7a] 
[ebuild    U ] sys-kernel/development-sources-2.5.63 [2.5.62-r2] 
[ebuild    U ] media-libs/libdvdread-0.9.4 [0.9.3] 
[ebuild    UD] media-libs/netpbm-9.12-r4 [10.11.5] 
[ebuild    UD] media-video/transcode-0.6.3 [0.6.3.20030116-r1] 
[ebuild    U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.2.0-r1 [2.2.0] 
[ebuild    U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.6.0-r3 [0.6.0-r2] 
[ebuild    U ] x11-libs/vte-0.10.25 [0.10.23] 
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/lm_sensors-2.7.0 [2.6.5] 
[ebuild    UD] media-libs/libmpeg2-0.2.1 [0.3.1] 
[ebuild    UD] media-video/avifile-0.7.15.20020816-r1 [0.7.32.20030219] 
[ebuild    U ] net-misc/rsync-2.5.6-r1 [2.5.6]

emerge info:

Portage 2.0.46-r12 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2_pre1-r0)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.19-xfs-r2 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU
1.70GHz
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="oss libg++ mikmod nls gdbm arts tetex guile pam python esd 3dnow
acl acpi alsa avi berkdb bonobo crypt cups dga directfb doc dvd encode
evo fbcon gb gd gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtkhtml icc imap imlib innodb
java jikes jpeg junit kde ldap libwww maildir mbox mmx motif mozilla
mpeg mysql ncurses oav oggvorbis opengl pcmcia pda pdflib perl pic png
pnp qt qtmt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk
tcpd tiff truetype X xml xml2 xmms xv zlib x86 -apm -odbc"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"