There is currently no stable version in the tree, 2.2 is considered stable upstream and has been in the tree for over a year.
1. emerges fine on x86 2. passes collision test emerge --info Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.13 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 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-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--nospinner" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/" LANG="en_GB.utf8" LINGUAS="en de en_GB" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 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/normal" SYNC="rsync://192.168.2.1/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt css cups dbus divx4linux dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss exif fam ffmpeg firefox font-server fortran gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kernel_linux ldap libclamav libg++ linguas_de linguas_en linguas_en_GB logitech-mouse mad mikmod mmx mmxext mono mozcalendar mozdevelop mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nvidia oav ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl seamonkey session spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd test tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU vcd video_cards_none video_cards_nv vorbis win32codecs xine xinerama xml xorg xorg-x11 xprint xv xvg xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
x86 stable ^.^
