$ cat /etc/portage/package.mask =x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-1.1.2 $ emerge -upDvN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies ..... . ... done! [ebuild U ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-1.1.2 [1.1.1] USE="-debug" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB $ emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre10-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre18 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r1 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="no" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=opteron -mtune=opteron -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/fonts /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/rc.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/rsync /etc/terminfo /etc/wget /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=opteron -mtune=opteron -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"LANG="en_GB.ISO-8859-15" LC_ALL="en_GB.ISO-8859-15" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/packages.xfce" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/vmware" SYNC="rsync://gate.prhnet/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups directfb dri dvd eds emboss encode fbcon foomaticdb fortran gif gimp gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads javascript jpeg libcaca lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection scanner sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis wmf xorg xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_en_GB userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS
Post the output of 'grep -Rni x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv' /etc/portage and reopen then.