emerge -DuNtav world gives me !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been !!! pulled into the dependency graph: dev-lang/fpc:0 ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-lang/fpc-2.2.0-r1', 'merge') pulled in by ('installed', '/', 'dev-lang/lazarus-0.9.24', 'nomerge') ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-lang/fpc-2.2.2', 'merge') pulled in by ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-lang/fpc-ide-2.2.2', 'merge') Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -DuNtav world 2. 3. Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 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: 1.5, 1.6.3, 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="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops" 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/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/eselect/postgresql /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="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8" LC_ALL="sv_SE" LINGUAS="sv en" MAKEOPTS="-j7" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 acl alsa apache2 avi bc bcmath berkdb blas bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt css ctype cups curl divx4linux doc dri dv dvdr dvdread encode examples fame fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gmp gpm graphviz iconv icq imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog jpeg lame latex maildir midi mjpeg mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly numarray numeric nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl php png posix postgres pppd python qt4 quicktime readline reflection revode sasl session simplexml soap sockets spl sqlite ssl subtitles subversion svg tcpd threads truetype unicode vorbis x86 xinerama xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xorg xsl 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 mmap_emul 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" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="sv en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
This is not a bug - it's a feature of portage. It's telling you that if you want to have dev-lang/lazarus installed, you need to mask >=dev-lang/fpc-2.2.2 (and >=dev-lang/fpc-ide-2.2.2 accordingly).