"existing file /dev/MAKEDEV is not owned by this package" due to the collision-protect flag in FEATURES (/etc/make.conf) emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2_pre2-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.15-27-k7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-27-k7 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.13.0_alpha1 Last Sync: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:20:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 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: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo http://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/Linux/gentoo" LANG="pt_PT.UTF-8" LINGUAS="pt en zh zh_CN" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=30" 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="/tmp/var" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage-overlays/local" SYNC="rsync://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi afs aim alsa apache2 arts artworkextra audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts blas bluetooth bonobo browserplugin bzip2 cairo calendar canna caps cddb cdparanoia cdr chasen cjk clamav cli crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dbus dga dhcp dio directfb divx4linux dlloader doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emacs encode esd ethereal evo examples exif fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash fontconfig foomaticdb fortran freewnn ftp gb gcc gcj gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gimp-print ginac glitz glut gmp gnokii gnome gnomedb gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hardened hddtemp howl i8x0 iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb input_devices_evdev input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics input_devices_vmmouse ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java javascript jbig jikes joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kernel_linux ladcca latex lcms ldap leim lesstif libcaca libclamav libedit libg++ libgda libwww linguas_en linguas_pt linguas_zh linguas_zh_CN lirc logitech-mouse m17n-lib mad madwifi maildir mailwrapper mcal md5sum migemo mikmod mime ming mmap mmx mmx2 mng mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msession msn msql mssql mule mysql mysqli mythtv nas nautilus ncurses neXt netboot network nis nls nntp nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia odbc offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis on-the-fly-crypt openal opengl osc oscar oss pam pam-mysql pam_chroot pam_console pam_timestamp pcntl pcre pda pdf pdflib perl php pic plotutils png portaudio posix postgres ppds pppd prelude pwdb python qt quicktime radiotap rdesktop readline recode reflection ruby samba sasl scanner sdl session sharedext sharedmem shorten simplexml skey slang slp sndfile snmp soap sockets socks5 sox speex spell spl sqlite srvdir sse sse2 ssl svg svga symlink sysvipc szip tcl tcltk tcpd test tetex theora threads tidy tiff timidity tk tokenizer toolbar truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo videos visualization vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows x86 xface xine xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xorg xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xsl xv xvid yahoo zeroconf zip zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
nothing should be providing that but baselayout
