This has been going on for a few weeks, but when I merge world neon first pops up in my list as: # emerge -uDav world [ebuild UD] net-misc/neon-0.24.7 [0.25.3] USE="ssl zlib -expat" 0 kB and then this one: seeker ~ # emerge -uDav world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies - !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: net-print/hpoj sys-apps/sh-utils sys-apps/fileutils sys-apps/textutils ...done! [ebuild U ] net-misc/neon-0.25.3 [0.24.7] USE="ssl zlib -expat" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] and then the next `emerge -uDav world` wants to update neon just like the first. It's not doing any harm, but it would be nice to stabalize on single version. seeker ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r4 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /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/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli crypt cups dba dga doc dvd eds elibc_glibc emacs emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howloss imlib ipv6 ithreads jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline scanner sdl snmp spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
echo "=net-misc/neon-0.25.3" >> /etc/portage/package.mask Nothing we could do here, there's stuff in portage that doesn't compile/is broken with neon-0.25 and you have one of such packages installed.
