[gentoo-user] Two things about portage

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

Is it only me who sees a difference between the order in which portage 
offers to install packages and the order in which it does install them?

Secondly, today's sync fetched thirty thousand files, nearly all in 
metadata, yet nothing needed upgrading. Is this caused by careless editing? 
I've noticed before that sed /g alters the time stamp of all files it looks 
in, regardless of whether it changes anything.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.