I just synched my portage tree and there is no PEAR-XML_RPC ebuild, seth ~ # ls /usr/portage/dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC/ ChangeLog Manifest files metadata.xml I can't even update my system because this is a dependency of the PEAR-PEAR package. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --sync 2. emerge PEAR-XML_RPC 3. Actual Results: seth ~ # emerge PEAR-XML_RPC Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "PEAR-XML_RPC". Expected Results: Merge PEAR-XML_RPC successfuly seth ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -msse2 -mmmx -mfpmath=sse,387 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -msse2 -mmmx -mfpmath=sse,387 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors1.netvisao.pt/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo-pt.org/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo-portage/" USE="X aalib alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups curl dba dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm geoip gif gmail gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libcaca libg++ libwww live mad mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses network nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline real sdl session slang snmp spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
emerge sync again, you must have synced just in between the old ebuild was removed and the new one committed.