I noticed that emerge gnome is failing on AMD64 because the newest stable perl-PodParser is virtual/perl-PodParser-1.28 which refers to perl-core/PodParser-1.28, which has been removed from portage. Because of this, I have to add virtual/perl-PodParser, dev-lang/perl, sys-devel/libperl, and app-admin/perl-cleaner if I want to install Gnome. emerge --info: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt ctype cups dba dri eds emboss encode expat fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff memlimit mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl ssl tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb xml xpm xsl xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Fixed in cvs.