quick portage question, recovered after gcc got del'd

[gimp2x]

i booted the cd to rescue mode and mounted the / partition from my system

i untar'd a stage 3 tarball over everything

works great!

only problem, passwd's were messd up, users del'd, etc

fixed all of that....

now HERE IS MY QUESTION

when i do an emerge rsync and then emerge -up world, it shows the following:

<<< obj /usr/share/doc/less-378-r1/README.gz
<<< obj /usr/share/doc/less-378-r1/NEWS.gz
<<< obj /usr/share/doc/less-378-r1/LICENSE.gz
<<< obj /usr/share/doc/less-378-r1/COPYING.gz
<<< obj /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh
<<< obj /usr/bin/lesskey
<<< obj /usr/bin/lessecho
<<< obj /usr/bin/less
<<< obj /etc/env.d/70less
--- cfgpro dir /etc/env.d
<<< dir /usr/share/doc/less-378-r1
--- !empty dir /usr/share/man/man1
--- !empty dir /usr/share/man
--- !empty dir /usr/share/doc
--- !empty dir /usr/share
--- !empty dir /usr/bin
--- !empty dir /usr
--- !empty dir /etc
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> Auto-cleaning packages ...

sys-apps/grub
selected: 0.90-r7
protected: 0.92-r1
omitted: none

sys-apps/shadow
selected: 4.0.3-r2
protected: 4.0.2-r4 4.0.3
omitted: none

net-misc/wget
selected: 1.8.2
protected: 1.8.1-r1 1.8.2-r2
omitted: none

sys-devel/perl
selected: 5.6.1-r7
protected: 5.6.1-r3 5.8.0-r9
omitted: none

sys-apps/e2fsprogs
selected: 1.29-r1
protected: 1.27 1.32-r2
omitted: none

dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker
selected: 6.05-r1
protected: 6.05-r4
omitted: none

sys-apps/modutils
selected: 2.4.19
protected: 2.4.22
omitted: none

sys-devel/gcc
selected: 3.2.1
protected: 3.2.1-r6
omitted: none

sys-apps/man-pages
selected: 1.52
protected: 1.43-r1 1.54
omitted: none

sys-libs/cracklib
selected: 2.7-r5
protected: 2.7-r6
omitted: none

sys-apps/texinfo
selected: 4.2-r5
protected: 4.3-r1
omitted: none

sys-apps/psmisc
selected: 19-r3
protected: 21.2
omitted: none

net-misc/dhcpcd
selected: 1.3.20_p0-r1
protected: 1.3.22_p3-r3
omitted: none

sys-devel/autoconf
selected: 2.53a
protected: 2.54
omitted: none

sys-apps/sh-utils
selected: 2.0.15
protected: 2.0.11-r4 2.0.11-r5
omitted: none

app-editors/nano
selected: 1.0.9-r2
protected: 1.0.8-r1 1.0.9
omitted: none

sys-apps/baselayout
selected: 1.8.5.3
protected: 1.7.8-r1 1.8.5.8
omitted: none

sys-apps/portage
selected: 2.0.44
protected: 2.0.36 2.0.46-r9
omitted: none

net-ftp/ftp
selected: 0.17-r1
protected: 0.17-r2
omitted: none

sys-apps/groff
selected: 1.17.2-r3
protected: 1.17.2-r1 1.18.1
omitted: none

sys-apps/man
selected: 1.5k
protected: 1.5i-r3 1.5k-r1
omitted: none

sys-apps/diffutils
selected: 2.8.4-r1
protected: 2.7.7 2.8.4
omitted: none

sys-apps/util-linux
selected: 2.11u
protected: 2.11y
omitted: none

sys-apps/net-tools
selected: 1.60-r4
protected: 1.60-r3 1.60-r5
omitted: none

dev-lang/python
selected: 2.2.1-r5
protected: 2.2.2
omitted: none

sys-apps/gzip
selected: 1.3.2
protected: 1.3.3
omitted: none

sys-apps/less
selected: 378-r1
protected: 371-r1 376
omitted: none

sys-apps/bash
selected: 2.05a-r3
protected: 2.05a-r2 2.05b-r3
omitted: none

sys-libs/ncurses
selected: 5.2.20020511-r3
protected: 5.2-r5 5.3-r1
omitted: none

net-misc/rsync
selected: 2.5.5-r1
protected: 2.5.5 2.5.6_pre20021105-r1
omitted: none

sys-devel/binutils
selected: 2.13.90.0.16
protected: 2.11.92.0.12.3-r2 2.13.90.0.16-r1
omitted: none

sys-libs/pam
selected: 0.75-r10
protected: 0.75-r6 0.75-r11
omitted: none

sys-apps/sed
selected: 4.0.1
protected: 3.02.80-r3 3.02.80-r4
omitted: none

sys-apps/hdparm
selected: 5.2-r3
protected: 5.2-r2
omitted: none

>>> Packages in red are slated for removal.
>>> Packages in green will not be removed.

>>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
>>> Unmerging in: 5 Killed
closet home # en
enable encode_keychange env
enc2xs encodedv env-update
closet home # en
enable encode_keychange env
enc2xs encodedv env-update
closet home # env
closet home # emerge sed
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/sed-4.0.5 to /
>>> md5 sed-4.0.5.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking sed-4.0.5.tar.gz
Killed
closet home # emerge
closet home # emerge -up world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/sed-4.0.5
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/iptables-1.2.7a-r3
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.46-r11
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3-r3
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/less-378-r1



but when i do an emerge -u world, it tries to clean out all of the older versions but deletes the newer ones too

any suggestions? it deletes cp, env, mv, tar, all of the vital functions...

VERY annoying