Currently none of the development-sources ebuilds in portage (2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3_rc1, 2.6.3_rc2) provide virtual/linux-sources. The ugly effect of this can be a blocked portage like this: # emerge -p -Du world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies / !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=virtual/linux-sources-2.4" have been masked. !!! possible candidates are: - sys-kernel/vanilla-prepatch-sources-2.4.25_pre8 (masked by: ~keyword) - sys-kernel/vanilla-prepatch-sources-2.4.25_rc1 (masked by: ~keyword) - sys-kernel/vanilla-prepatch-sources-2.4.25_pre7 (masked by: ~keyword) - sys-kernel/vanilla-prepatch-sources-2.4.25_pre4 (masked by: ~keyword) - sys-kernel/vanilla-prepatch-sources-2.4.25_rc2 (masked by: ~keyword) !!! (dependency required by "media-video/ati-drivers-3.7.0" [ebuild]) !!! Problem with ebuild media-video/ati-drivers-3.7.0 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed.
development-sources does provide it (it's part of the kernel-2 eclass).
Ok, sorry, didn't know that. It is indeed recorded properly in /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.0/PROVIDE: virtual/linux-sources virtual/alsa Must be an instance of Bug #5121 then.