eselect-whois is blocked by <net-misc/whois-4.7.19-r1 but there is no such version of the ebuild. The latest ebuild is net-misc/whois-4.7.19. I'm on ~x86. # emerge -uDva world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [blocks B ] <net-misc/whois-4.7.19-r1 (is blocking app-admin/eselect-whois-1.0.0) ... [ebuild N ] net-misc/whois-4.7.19 USE="nls" 60 kB ...
eselect-whois doesn't exist any more; unmerge it.