On a fresh installation, app-editors/nvi cannot be emerged because it conflicts with sys-libs/db-4. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -p app-editors/nvi Actual Results: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! �blocks B � >=sys-libs/db-4 (from pkg app-editors/nvi-1.81.5) �ebuild N � app-editors/nvi-1.81.5 Expected Results: Install sys-libs/db-3 and nvi. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 Portage 2.0.49-r13-2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-cube-2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-cube-2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor distcc 2.9 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/vice/etc /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/afs/modload /etc/make.globals /etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://hybrid.sascha.silbe.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 foomaticdb libg++ mad gtkhtml gdbm berkdb libwww gtk cdr -3dfx 3dnow -aalib acl afs -alsa apm -arts avi -bonobo crypt -cups dga -directfb doc dvd encode -esd -evo -fbcon -ggi gif -gnome -gnome-libs -gphoto2 -gpm guile hbci -icc -icc-pgo imap imlib ipv6 -java jpeg kde -kerberos krb4 lcms ldap -matrox maildir mbox mikmod mmx monitor -motif mozilla mpeg -mule mysql nas ncurses nls -odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam -pcmcia -pda pdflib -perl png -pnp postgres python qt qtmt quicktime readline -ruby samba -sasl sdl skey -slang -slp -snmp socks5 spell ssl -static -svga -tcltk -tcpd tetex tiff truetype -voodoo3 X xml xml2 -xmms xv -zeo zlib linguas_en,de"
On a fresh installation, app-editors/nvi cannot be emerged because it conflicts with sys-libs/db-4. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -p app-editors/nvi Actual Results: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! �blocks B � >=sys-libs/db-4 (from pkg app-editors/nvi-1.81.5) �ebuild N � app-editors/nvi-1.81.5 Expected Results: Install sys-libs/db-3 and nvi. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 Portage 2.0.49-r13-2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-cube-2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-cube-2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor distcc 2.9 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/vice/etc /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/afs/modload /etc/make.globals /etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://hybrid.sascha.silbe.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 foomaticdb libg++ mad gtkhtml gdbm berkdb libwww gtk cdr -3dfx 3dnow -aalib acl afs -alsa apm -arts avi -bonobo crypt -cups dga -directfb doc dvd encode -esd -evo -fbcon -ggi gif -gnome -gnome-libs -gphoto2 -gpm guile hbci -icc -icc-pgo imap imlib ipv6 -java jpeg kde -kerberos krb4 lcms ldap -matrox maildir mbox mikmod mmx monitor -motif mozilla mpeg -mule mysql nas ncurses nls -odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam -pcmcia -pda pdflib -perl png -pnp postgres python qt qtmt quicktime readline -ruby samba -sasl sdl skey -slang -slp -snmp socks5 spell ssl -static -svga -tcltk -tcpd tetex tiff truetype -voodoo3 X xml xml2 -xmms xv -zeo zlib linguas_en,de"
fixed in CVS.
Works fine now. Thanks!