If I try to emerge talloc I got the following messages # emerge -uav --oneshot talloc These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-libs/talloc-2.0.5 [2.0.1-r1] USE="python%* -compat (-doc%) (-static-libs%) (-swig%)" 357 kB [?=>0] [blocks B ] <sys-libs/talloc-2.0.5 ("<sys-libs/talloc-2.0.5" is blocking sys-libs/talloc-2.0.5) Quick search in the ebuild gives me this # cat /usr/portage/sys-libs/talloc/talloc-2.0.5.ebuild |grep RDEPEND RDEPEND="!!<sys-libs/talloc-2.0.5" Gentoo Box Info $ emerge --info Portage 2.2.2 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.37-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.37-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_860_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.1.8 Portage Tree: /usr/portage Portage HEAD: 1a513f2dab16812443ff259eacec2da4be1d102d /usr/portage/.git/refs/heads/funtoo.org distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7::funtoo dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11::funtoo dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3::funtoo dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8::funtoo dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2::funtoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1.8::funtoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0::funtoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1::funtoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::funtoo, 2.65-r1::funtoo sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r2::funtoo, 1.9.6-r2::funtoo, 1.10.3::funtoo, 1.11.1::funtoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1::funtoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.3-r2::funtoo, 4.4.3::funtoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1::funtoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10::funtoo sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2::funtoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.32::funtoo sys-libs/glibc: 2.11-r1::funtoo virtual/os-headers: 2.6.32::funtoo (sys-kernel/linux-headers) Repositories: gentoo gentoo-china steev gnome mpd ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1 skype-eula AdobeFlash-10.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4 -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -mcx16 -msahf -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4 -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -mcx16 -msahf -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages mini-manifest news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="es_ES.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/gentoo-china /var/lib/layman/steev /var/lib/layman/gnome /var/lib/layman/mpd" SYNC="git://github.com/funtoo/portage-mini-2010.git" SYNC_USER="root" USE="7zip X a52 aac aalib acl acpi addbookmarks additions admin administrator alac alsa amarok amazon amd amd64 amrnb animation-rtl antlr apache2 apng archive ares ascii aspell autoipd automount avahi bash-completion bdf berkdb binary-drivers branding bzip2 c++ cairo ccache cdda cddb cdio cdr cli consolekit contentcache corba cracklib crypt css cups cursors custom-cxxflags cxx daap dbus dc1394 directfb disk-partition divx dri dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode equalizer evo exif fam fastbuild fat fbcon fbcondecor fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp fuse gconf gdbm gdm gdu gif git gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print gnutella gnutls gpm grub gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtk3 hddtemp hfs httpd icons iconv id3tag imagemagick injection introspection ipv6 jpeg lame lcms libcaca libgcrypt libnotify live lua mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mudflap multilib musepack mysql nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs objc objc++ objc-gc ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pango pcimcia pcre pdf perl php plugins png policykit ppds pppd private-headers python qt3support readline reflection samba sdl session shout simplexml skins spell spl sqlite srt sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification stream subversion svg sysfs taglib tcpd theora threads tiff tokenizer truetype udev udf unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd verse vorbis wavpack webkit wmf wxwindows x x264 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xscreensaver xsl xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, SYNC_UMASK
'<' != '<='. I don't remember why, but it seems there was a reason for a hard block - probably bug 351608, making this one INVALID.
15 Mar 2011; Víctor Ostorga <vostorga@gentoo.org> talloc-2.0.5.ebuild: Fixing collision with /usr/lib/libtalloc.so.2 bug #351608 setting python 2.6 as runtime python bug #354587 #357269 Yes, portage should resolve this block automatically
*** Bug 405885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
