hi carpaski,
took me a while to track this one down...
I have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in my make.conf.
virutal/emacs can be satisfied by either app-editors/emacs or app-editors/emacs-cvs.
i have an ebuild "foo" (actually every ebuild in app-emacs is affected by this
bug), which DEPENDS="virutal/emacs".
app-editors/emacs-cvs is all masked (with ~ keywords)
app-editors/emacs isn't
I have app-editors/emacs-cvs emerged, but no app-editors/emacs.
now for package foo, i "repoman commit" and it fails with a bad depend on
"virtual/emacs".
After a lot of futzing around, I change app-editors/emacs-cvs to stable
keywords, and it worked.
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So here i think is the guts of the problem: we cannot have a virtual in a
package with stable keywords when one or more of the ebuilds which satisfy the
virtual has unstable keywords.
Just a note -- it might be something recent in portage which caused this to
break, because it used to work (i added app-emacs/* originally and it worked at
that time).
In the meantime, I'm changing app-editors/emacs-cvs to stable keywords as a work
around.
Matt