On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:41:39PM +0200, duchier@ps.uni-sb.de wrote:
> Patrick Kursawe <phosphan@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
> >> Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> >> [ebuild    UD] app-text/tetex-1.0.7-r12 [2.0-r1]
> >
> > Tetex 2.0-r1 has been removed from portage. It looks like emerge
> > tries to be on the safe side and rather downgrade than keep
> > a version it does not know about. If you upgrade to tetex-2.0.2,
> > emerge -U should no longer try to downgrade.
> 
> Thank you very much!  That explains it and your suggestion fixed the
> problem.  However, is this really the _right_ behaviour?
> 
>     o portage actually knows something about tetex 2.0-r1 since it is
>       emerged
> 
>     o --upgradeonly promises to not downgrade: regardless of whether
>       there is currently an ebuild for the installed version, the
>       version is known, and IMHO that fixes the semantics of
>       downgrading
> 
>     o maybe --pretend could provide an indication that no ebuild for
>       the currently installed version can be found
> 
> Comments?

Nicholas, are you following this thread?

Patrick