I have xorg installed. Here is the result when I try to update gnome-terminal: root@stealblue patrick # emerge -up gnome-terminal These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libglade-2.3.6 [2.0.1] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.3 [0.8.2] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/ORBit2-2.10.0 [2.8.3] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gconf-2.6.0 [2.4.0.1] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libbonobo-2.6.0 [2.4.3] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.6.0 [2.4.2-r1] [ebuild U ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.5-r6 [1.2.5-r4] [ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r5 [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.6.0 [2.4.0] [ebuild U ] media-sound/esound-0.2.34 [0.2.33] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.6.0 [2.4.0] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.6.0 [2.4.3] [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.2.0 [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.6.0 [2.4.0.1] [ebuild N ] x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme-0.4 [ebuild U ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-1.2.0 [1.0.9] [ebuild U ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.6.0 [2.4.1] [ebuild U ] x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.6.0 [2.4.2] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type emerge -up gnome-terminal Actual Results: Portage wanted to emerge x11-base/xfree. Expected Results: Portage should be content that Xorg is installed.
Do you have items "virtual/x11 x11-base/xorg-x11" and "virtual/xft x11-base/xorg-x11" in /var/cache/edb/virtuals? If not you should add them or remerge xorg-x11.
Yes. Here are the relevant lines: root@stealblue / # grep "xorg" /var/cache/edb/virtuals virtual/xft x11-base/xorg-x11 virtual/glu x11-base/xorg-x11 virtual/x11 x11-base/xorg-x11 virtual/opengl x11-base/xorg-x11
from gnome-terminal-2.6.0.ebuild: RDEPEND="virtual/xft >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.2 >=gnome-base/libglade-2 >=gnome-base/gconf-1.2 >=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2 >=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.4 >=x11-libs/startup-notification-0.4 >=x11-libs/vte-0.11" DEPEND="${RDEPEND} sys-devel/gettext >=app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.11 >=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.12.0 >=dev-util/intltool-0.29 !gnome-base/gnome-core" so its not gnome-terminal's fault, its one of its dependancies ( ive looked over the ebuilds, it doesn't look like any do
you might want to try a clean tree (check your local tree if you have one !) not a gentoo problem , closing