Seems fishy to me :) I looked around for gnome binaries but did not find any. -- root@Mind bin # emerge gnome Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge gnome-base/gnome-2.0.0 to / >>> Unpacking source... >>> Source unpacked. >>> Install gnome-2.0.0 into /var/tmp/portage/gnome-2.0.0/image/ category gnome-base strip: >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/gnome-2.0.0/image/ >>> Merging gnome-base/gnome-2.0.0 to / >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... >>> gnome-base/gnome-2.0.0 merged. * Regenerating GNU info directory index... * Processed 62 info files. -- I have tried to unmerge Gnome and emerge it again, but it does the same thing.
Odd. Does emerge --clean rsync && emerge gnome fixes that ?
Nope.
Well, the gnome ebuild is just a "wrapper" to all the needed packages to get a complete gnome2 install. What you reported is happening because all the dependencies listed in the gnome ebuild are satisfied. I've just committed a -r1 revision, a few packages have been updated. Check it out.