I have set USE="... -avahi " in /etc/make.conf, nevertheless 'emerge -uvD world' wants to install avahi. root@cheetah:/etc/X11(12)# emerge -pvuDt --newuse world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: ... [ebuild U ] media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 [0.11.2] USE="daap dbus flac hal lirc mad musicbrainz python vorbis -debug -doc -ipod -keyring -libnotify -tagwriting (-avahi%) (-howl%)" 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-mobilephone/gnome-phone-manager-0.20 [0.8] USE="-debug" 449 kB [nomerge ] media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 [0.11.2] USE="daap dbus flac hal lirc mad musicbrainz python vorbis -debug -doc -ipod -keyring -libnotify -tagwriting (-avahi%) (-howl%)" [ebuild N ] net-dns/avahi-0.6.21 USE="dbus gdbm gtk ipv6 mono python -autoipd -bookmarks -doc -howl-compat -mdnsresponder-comp ... [blocks B ] net-misc/mDNSResponder (is blocking net-dns/avahi-0.6.21) [blocks B ] net-dns/avahi (is blocking net-misc/mDNSResponder-107.6-r5) Reproducible: Always root@cheetah:/etc/X11(16)# emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.16 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Timestamp of tree: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:30:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6, 2.5.1-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 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: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -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/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc /revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mir rors/gentoo rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu" LINGUAS="de fr" MAKEOPTS="-j1" 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=/packag es --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage/xeffects/trunk /usr/local/portage/xeffects/experimental /usr/local/sci" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi aiglx alsa amrr ao aotuv apache2 asf atlas auctex audacious audiofile automount bash-completion beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bluetooth bonobo boo bzip2 ca iro cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chm cli corba cracklib crypt cups curl daap dbus device-mapper dga divx dlloader dmi dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dxr3 dynagraph effects elf emacs emboss encode epip hany esd evo evolution examples exif expat fam fame ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk foomaticdb fortran fpx galago gdal gdbm geos gif gimp gimpprint ginac glade glitz gml gmp gnome gnuplot gnutls gpho to2 gpm graphviz grass gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk guile hal hardened hddtemp hdf hdf5 hlapi iconv icq id3 imagemagick innodb ipv6 isdnlog ithreads jabber java jbig john jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kexi ladspa lame la pack latex lcms ldap libgda libsamplerate lirc lm_sensors lua lzo lzw mad math matroska matrox midi mmx mmxext mng mod mono motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudf lap musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf network nfs nls nntp nptl nptlonly ntfs numarray numeric ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plotutils plugin png pos ix postgres pppd preview-latex proj python qhull quicktime readline real reflection reiserfs rhythmbox rle rrdcgi rrdtool samba sdl session slang slp sndfile snmp sox speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl subtitles svg t1lib tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales utempter v4l2 vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xattr xemacs xext xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" LIRC_DEVICES="hauppauge" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mga vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
So disable USE=daap for media-sound/rhythmbox; read the ebuild before filing bugs please.
Thanks for the hint; In future I will look into ebuild before bug filing. Juergen
