emerge update reports: [blocks B ] app-admin/eselect-news ("app-admin/eselect-news" is blocking app-admin/eselect-1.2.3) Total: 7 packages (7 upgrades), Size of downloads: 4,268 kB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('ebuild', '/', 'app-admin/eselect-1.2.3', 'merge') pulled in by >=app-admin/eselect-1.0.2 required by ('installed', '/', 'app-admin/eselect-python-20090824', 'nomerge') app-admin/eselect required by ('installed', '/', 'app-editors/vim-core-7.2.182', 'nomerge') app-admin/eselect required by ('installed', '/', 'app-admin/eselect-fontconfig-1.0', 'nomerge') (and 10 more) ('installed', '/', 'app-admin/eselect-news-20080320', 'nomerge') pulled in by app-admin/eselect-news required by world For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked Reproducible: Always
Not a bug, eselect-1.2.3 contains its own news module now. Unmergeing app-admin/eselect-news should fix the problem.