> I hope my continued reports on "emerge -U" are neither out of place
> nor too tiresome.  Today, I "emerge sync"'d, tried "emerge -Up --deep
> world" and got the following error:

They'd be better as bugs. List mail and forums get no where near the
attention IRC and bugs.gentoo.org get.

-U is not perfect yet and is presently on the back burner, awaiting
a major cleanup effort in 2.1. It's no where near critical, not
anywhere near easy to implement, and therefore isn't particularly high
on the to-do list.

--NJ