I don't have or want to have emacs on my system, but if I want to upgrade gnuplot from 4.4.3 to 4.4.3-r1, then emacs will be built. I now explicitly added -emacs to USE in /etc/make.conf, but this does not prevent emacs from being built. Here is the output of emerge -av gnuplot: [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.13 8 kB [ebuild N ] app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.2-r2 USE="X -emacs22icons" 46 kB [ebuild N ] app-editors/emacs-23.3 USE="X alsa dbus gif gtk jpeg png svg tiff xpm -Xaw3d (-aqua) -gconf -gpm -gzip-el -hesiod -kerberos -m17n-lib -motif -sound -source -toolkit-scroll-bars -xft" 37,785 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/emacs-23 0 kB [ebuild U ] sci-visualization/gnuplot-4.4.3-r1 [4.4.3] USE="X cairo gd latex readline wxwidgets -doc -emacs -ggi -lua -plotutils (-svga) -thin-splines -xemacs" 3,229 kB Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.9.50 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.6.0, glibc-2.13-r2, 2.6.39-rc5-54499-g508c8d6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-rc5-54499-g508c8d6-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5200+-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 29 May 2011 08:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p10 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1, 3.2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.2, 4.6.0 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.38 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL AdobeFlash-10.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64-sse3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/games/angband/edit/ /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64-sse3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/ramdisk" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/zugaina /var/lib/layman/kde /var/lib/layman/x11" SYNC="rsync://rsync.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluray branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus djvu dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp gdbm gdu gif gmp gnutls gstreamer gtk hddtemp iconv imagemagick ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k kde kpathsea lame lcms libass libnotify lm_sensors lzma mad matroska mbrola mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mudflap multilib musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pango pch pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd qt3support qt4 readline sdl semantic-desktop session smp spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs taglib tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis webkit x264 xcb xml xorg 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" 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="wacom evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="genesys" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="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, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Here's the part that did it (4.4.3 => 4.4.3-r1): - !emacs? ( xemacs? ( app-xemacs/texinfo ) )" + !emacs? ( xemacs? ( app-xemacs/texinfo ) ) + !emacs? ( !xemacs? ( || ( virtual/emacs app-xemacs/texinfo ) ) )" This 'fix' came as a result of bug 366129. The last comment there (comment 24) mentions a real fix that we may see soon? I would rather never use gnuplot ever again than taint my system with emacs or xemacs. (I mean I've already switched over to matplotlib, so it's hardly a threat.) Here is the fix: echo '=sci-visualization/gnuplot-4.4.3-r1' > /etc/portage/package.mask I also took the opportunity to mask virtual/emacs, app-editors/emacs, and app-editors/xemacs. It felt really good.
Do a sync and try again -- that fix mentioned in bug 366129 has already hit the rsync mirrors.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 369097 ***
