[gentoo-user] Weird portage behaviour

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list, me again  :-(

(Apologies if I'm trying your patience - my own is wearing pretty thin.)

I've discovered a problem in portage on the same Atom mini-server as I've 
mentioned here recently.

# emerge -epv world
--->8
Total: 329 packages (329 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 595,566 kB

# emerge -epvk world
--->8
Total: 240 packages (240 reinstalls, 240 binaries), Size of downloads: 0 kB

# emerge -epv world > list
# emerge -epvk world > listk
# diff list listk

...merely shows the contents of list, then the contents of listk, so clearly 
the packages are being evaluated in a different order.

# find /usr/portage/packages -type f | wc
    330     330   17879
(The extra file is /usr/portage/packages/Packages, i.e. not a portage package.)

# alias emerge
-bash: alias: emerge: not found

How is it possible for portage to emerge packages differently when it's 
installing from packages?

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Regards
Peter