kien root # emerge -uvp --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] media-libs/libquicktime (from pkg media-libs/quicktime4linux-1.6.2) [blocks B ] media-libs/quicktime4linux (from pkg media-libs/libquicktime-0.9.2_pre1) kien root # emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xv zlib directfb berkdb slang readline arts tetex svga tcltk java X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd oggvorbis qt kde motif opengl cdr aalib acpi artswrappersuid dga dvd ethereal fbcon pcmcia pnp samba slp sse avi -gnome -imlib -mikmod -xmms -gdbm -gtk" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
Acknowledged, the same happens on my box. If you emerge one of them, it shows an block from the other one and tries to emerge it.
that's because the provide the same files and should be drop in replacements
there is a little de-sync in packages that depend on virtual/quicktime and packages that depend on specifically quicktime4linux or libquicktime ... however, those are ebuild specific bugs (and there are bugs open about them) ... this is not a portage bug