Portage thinks there are blockers, when running emerge -vu world. When I try to unmerge the blocker, there is no such thing! final -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" 0 kB [blocks B ] =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking app-text/aspell-0.60.5) Total: 129 packages (98 upgrades, 2 downgrades, 26 new, 3 in new slots, 1 block), Size of downloads: 329,894 kB shetach ~ # emerge --unmerge =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5 --- Couldn't find '=app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5' to unmerge. >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge shetach ~ # emerge --unmerge aspell --- Couldn't find 'aspell' to unmerge. >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -vu world 2. try to remove blockers 3. fails! Expected Results: Blocking package is removed. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP1700+ Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 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: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -mfpmath=sse" 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" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /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" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.public.fix.fi/gentoo http://ftp.public.fix.fi/gentoo/ http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/" LINGUAS="fi se en he de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile automount bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bonobo bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups curl dbm dbus dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif expat fam ffmpeg fftw firefox fortran gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jbig jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos ldap lesstif mad maildir matroska midi mikmod mime mmap mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer mudflap mysql ncurses net-fs/samba nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl php png povray pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotas rdesktop readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcl tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs winbind wmf x264 x86 xine xml xorg xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fi se en he de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Has absolutely nothing to do with baselayout. And
... kindly note the * there, it's important. emerge -C =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5*
