I looked at what kind of a difference cvs up made to built_with_use usage. betelgeuse@pena /usr/portage $ grep --include "*.ebuild" built_with_use -r . | wc -l 690 cvs up betelgeuse@pena /usr/portage $ grep --include "*.ebuild" built_with_use -r . | wc -l 708 There should be no legitimate reason for the number to go up so please whenever bumping ebuilds, remove the usage of built_with_use. Regards, Petteri