When I did 'emerge world' the stable dbus-0.62-r1 was emerged. But I have the ~x86 keyword set for dbus so I guess dbus-1.0.1-r2 should have been emerged. When I do 'emerge -pvuD world' this is the result: [blocks B ] <sys-apps/dbus-0.91 (is blocking sys-apps/dbus-1.0.1-r2) [ebuild U ] sys-apps/dbus-1.0.1-r2 [0.62-r1] USE="X debug -doc (-selinux) (-gtk%*) (-mono%) (-python%*) (-qt3%*) (-qt4%)" 0 kB I do NOT have dbus-0.91 installed. pa3ebv ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:30:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://194.117.143.71/mirrors/gentoo http://194.117.143.70" LC_ALL="nl_NL@euro" LINGUAS="us nl" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac alsa arts artswrappersuid audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups debug divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc encode fftw font-server fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog java javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux kig-scripting lcms ldap libg++ linguas_nl linguas_us logitech-mouse lzo mad mjpeg mmx mmx2 mng mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly odbc ogg opengl pam pcre pda pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba scanner sdk sdl session spl sse ssl tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU vcd video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xml xorg xprint xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
emerge -C \<sys-apps/dbus-0.91 or upgrade your portage. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79606 ***
Did 'emerge -C \<sys-apps/dbus-0.91' Now I get: pa3ebv ~ # emerge -pvuD world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [blocks B ] <sys-apps/dbus-0.91 (is blocking sys-apps/dbus-1.0.1-r2) [ebuild N ] sys-apps/dbus-0.62-r1 USE="X debug gtk python qt3 -doc -mono -qt4 (-selinux)" 0 kB [ebuild N ] sys-apps/dbus-1.0.1-r2 USE="X debug -doc (-selinux)" 0 kB I have the latest stable version of portage (2.1.1-r2) installed. Shoul I upgrade to unstable?
Because mixing latest dbus with stable applications is an extremely bad idea, don't do it. Either run ~arch or stick to stable dbus.