I don't know why it should depend on baselayout at all but at least this breaks on vservers when baselayout-vserver is used. BTW. Maybe some dev could be that kind to grep portage and search all strange and possibly bogus baselayout (especially only baselayout and not baselayout-vserver) dependiences? There should be not much of them IMHO. # emerge -puv --deep --newuse world >>> cfg-update-1.8.0-r3 : No new packages have been emerged, checksum index OK... These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.0" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.14-r8 (masked by: package.mask) # Benedikt Boehm <hollow@gentoo.org> # Mask baselayout in vservers. Use baselayout-vserver instead! - sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r1 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) - sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r3 (masked by: package.mask) - sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r2 (masked by: package.mask) - sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r5 (masked by: package.mask) - sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r4 (masked by: package.mask) - sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r7 (masked by: package.mask) - sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r6 (masked by: package.mask) - sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.1 (masked by: package.mask) - sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.5 (masked by: package.mask) - sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) - sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13-r2 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) - sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.15-r3 (masked by: package.mask) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by "sci-mathematics/gimps-24.14" [ebuild])
Fixed in CVS.