The above message shows as a "blocks" during a world update. As far as I can tell it's because of the line !<gnome-base/gail-1000" in $PORTDIR/x11-libs/gtk+/gtk+-2.14.3-r2.ebuild . (Because I stupidly removed the previous version of gail and this library in a forlorn attempt to work around this bug most of my Gnome system is now rather broken. I can try to devolve gtk+ but hopefully this bug is an easy fix.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --pretend =gnome-base/gail-1.22.3 =x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.3-r2 2. 3. Actual Results: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gail-1.22.3 USE="doc -debug" [blocks B ] <gnome-base/gail-1000 (is blocking x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.3-r2) Expected Results: Something along the following lines: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gail-1.22.3 USE="doc -debug" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.3-r2 USE=? (or in my case 'ebuild U' or 'ebuild R'). # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Timestamp of tree: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:05:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i486-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="i486-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 /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /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 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="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="/data/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/crossdev" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amr amrnb apache2 avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bzip2 bzlib cairo cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups dbus directfb doc dri dts dvd dxr3 encode fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gd-external gdbm gif glitz gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile iconv imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jack java jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos kqemu lame ldap libcaca libssh2 libwww lirc lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmap mmx mng modplug mono mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack mysql ncurses networking networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin numarray obbvortis ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcmcia pcre pdflib perl php png postgres ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt quicktime readline real reflection ruby samba sasl sdk sdl seamonkey session speex spl sse ssl svg svga sysfs tcl tcpd theora tiff tk truetype unicode usb v4l vboxwebsrv vcd videos vidix vim-syntax vorbis wavpack webdav win32codecs wma wmf x86 xcb xinerama xml xms xorg xulrunner 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 mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest 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 imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias proxy proxy_ajp" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
The blocker is correct: >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.14 provides the libraries formerly provided by gnome-base/gail: to fix your system at this point, all you would need to do is: # emerge --ask '>=gnome-base/gail-1000' '>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.14'
So update gail first (emerge -avu gail). Maybe you need to add gail to package.keywords or remove gtk+ from that file.
(In reply to comment #2) > So update gail first (emerge -avu gail). Maybe you need to add gail to > package.keywords or remove gtk+ from that file. > Adding gnome-base/gail x86 ~x86 to package.keywords and then re-emerging fixed it for now; thanks.
thx for the suggestions, it worked here on amd64...
I was able to resolve this issue by masking both gnome-base/gail-1000 and x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.3-r2
