emerge -up world downgrades glib???

[yngwin]

I am running Gentoo since a few days. Now I did an emerge -up world to see what it wants to upgrade: mostly minor upgrades, except for glibc (2.2.5 to 2.3.1) about which I'm not sure if that's a good idea.

But most frightening was to see that it wants to downgrade glib from 2.0.7 to 1.2.10!! I don't understand how that is possible, because it will break the dependencies for Gnome2 which is my chosen desktop. Is there a way to solve this?
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[sa]

oh, its not going to downgrade glib, it installs both version at the same time. It kind of freaked me out too.

but for your glibc question, I would be a little nervous too, I have seen some threads https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=25727&highlight=glibc

mabey give that a read.


hth,
sa

[yngwin]

Thanks! Reading the --deep thread, though, I tried that option and glib disappeared from the list, so I was satisfied with that. I read the thread you mentioned. There could be a few problems yes, but others say reassuring things It's a new install anyway, I haven't done too much to it, so I guess I could risk it. I think I'll let it work tonight.
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[jean-michel]

I'm using the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86", so admittedly I'm running a bit of an experimental system (though it works very well).

However, today when I did an emerge sync and an 'emerge -up --deep world' I got the following:

[Lasker]