On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:20:52 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I'm no expert by any stretch, I just noticed that it was acting > different and as illustrated, I could prove it. Perhaps I misunderstood > what --deep was for. I guess I thought it was the package and any > dependencies that NEEDED upgrade for the package to work. It updates any packages for which an upgraded is available. If the upgrade is needed, portage will do it without --deep. -- Neil Bothwick The man who dies with the most toys is dead.