When I do emerge -puvD world, I get the following line (both gnuplot and gnuplot-mode are desired): [blocks B ] app-emacs/gnuplot-mode (is blocking sci-visualization/gnuplot-4.0-r1) Normally, I work around this by unmerging and remerging gnuplot-mode after an update. emerge --info ------------- Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gent oo-r6-opt i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6-opt i686 AMD Duron(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:50:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled ] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shu tdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /et c/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sa ndbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-s tud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/d istfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X alsa alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_als4000 alsa_cards_atiixp al sa_cards_atiixp-modem alsa_cards_bt87x alsa_cards_ca0106 alsa_cards_cmipci alsa_ cards_emu10k1x alsa_cards_ens1370 alsa_cards_ens1371 alsa_cards_es1938 alsa_card s_es1968 alsa_cards_fm801 alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_in tel8x0m alsa_cards_maestro3 alsa_cards_trident alsa_cards_usb-audio alsa_cards_v ia82xx alsa_cards_via82xx-modem alsa_cards_ymfpci alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pc m_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm _plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_i ec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat al sa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plu gins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate als a_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins _softvol arts auctex berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cli cracklib crypt cups dll oader doc dri dvd dvdread elibc_glibc emacs encode flac font-server fortran gdbm gpm gtk2 iconv imap input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mo use ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux latex libg++ linguas_de li nguas_en mad matroska mmx mp3 mpeg musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugi n ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 readline reflection samb a session spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype -fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvid ia vorbis xorg xpm zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_R SYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
So unmerge it, you only need sci-visualization/gnuplot w/ USE=emacs *or* app-emacs/gnuplot-mode, not both. Someone should remove this thing, it's pretty redundant.
*** Bug 160129 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 160131 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Masked for removal
Gone; please nuke the stale package.mask entry. :)
