$ emerge -ep module-init-tools These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/binutils-config-1.8-r7 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20060227 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1-r3 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.5-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/m4-1.4.4 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/bison-2.1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.13-r3 [ebuild N ] virtual/libiconv-0 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.4 [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.11-r2 USE="-gcc64%" [ebuild N ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.13 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2006a [ebuild N ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r4 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/gettext-0.14.4 [ebuild N ] virtual/libintl-0 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/sed-4.1.4-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.2.1
As you can see above, there's no automake in the deptree, but module-init-tools require automake-1.6 --- emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1_pre2-r8 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r6-amd64 i686) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r6-amd64 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r2 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~maint ~overlay" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -msse2 -msse3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/glftpd/etc /var/bind /var/www/localhost/htdocs" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -msse2 -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect confcache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo/gentoo ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage//packages/x86/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage/" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/gentoo-php-overlay/experimental /usr/local/overlays/gentoo-php-overlay/testing /usr/local/overlays/gentoo-webapps-overlay/experimental" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext acl acpi apache2 apm bash-completion berkdb bzip2 crypt curl dlloader expat fam firebird fortran gd gdbm geoip gif gmp hardened idn imap imlib innodb java jpeg junit libg++ libwww maildir mmx mssql mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly odbc offensive pam pcre pdflib perl php pic png pnp postgres python readline sasl skey slang snmp socks5 spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode userlocales x86 xinetd xml xml2 xorg zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_en userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
or better yet, just dont call automake
