libspectre RDEPENDS on ghostscript-gpl, not on any available ghostscript. So, it is impossible to update while ghostscript-esp is installed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge ghostscript-esp 2. emerge evince 3. Portage 2.1.5_rc1 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Timestamp of tree: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r5 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.12 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, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -pipe -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident" 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/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -pipe -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="ru en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aiglx alsa amr amrnb amrwb apache2 arts artswrappersuid asf avahi avi bash-completion bluetooth browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cpdflib cracklib crypt cscope cups curl curlwrappers dbus dga dillo djvu dri dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread encode exif fam fbcon fbcondecor ffmpeg fftw firefox flash foomaticdb ftp gd gdbm geoip gif glibc-omitfp gmp gnokii gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv idea imagemagick imq inotify ipv6 irda isdnlog javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdexdeltas kdrive kipi kqemu ladspa libedit libg++ libsamplerate libwww live lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzo mad mailwrapper matroska mbox midi mikmod mime mmap mmx mmx2 mng modplug mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap mysql mysqli mythtv ncurses newspr nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rcc readline real reflection ruby samba scanner sdl session sms sockets spell spl sqlite srt sse ssl subversion svg tcpd theora threads threadsafe tidy tiff truetype unicode upnp usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs wxwindows x264 x86 xattr xcb xcomposite xface xine xinerama xml xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc 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="access auth auth_dbm auth_anon auth_digest alias file-cache echo charset-lite cache disk-cache mem-cache ext-filter case_filter case-filter-in deflate mime-magic cern-meta expires headers usertrack unique-id proxy proxy-connect proxy-ftp proxy-http info include cgi cgid dav dav-fs vhost-alias speling rewrite log_config logio env setenvif mime status autoindex asis negotiation dir imap actions userdir so filter unique_id authz_host" CAMERAS="adc65 agfa_cl20 aox barbie canon casio_qv clicksmart310 digigr8 digita dimagev dimera3500 directory enigma13 fuji gsmart300 hp215 iclick jamcam jd11 kodak_dc120 kodak_dc210 kodak_dc240 kodak_dc3200 kodak_ez200 konica konica_qm150 largan lg_gsm mars mustek panasonic_coolshot panasonic_dc1000 panasonic_dc1580 panasonic_l859 pccam300 pccam600 polaroid_pdc320 polaroid_pdc640 polaroid_pdc700 ptp2 ricoh ricoh_g3 samsung sierra sipix_blink sipix_blink2 sipix_web2 smal sonix sony_dscf1 sony_dscf55 soundvision spca50x sq905 stv0674 stv0680 sx330z template toshiba_pdrm11" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Which is correct, since it's the only ghostscript that it works with, and the other versions will go away over time.
