This was initially spotted doing emerge world -uDpv and then pinpointed to viewcvs. dev viewcvs # emerge viewcvs -pv These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-libs/apr (from pkg dev-util/subversion-1.0.6) [ebuild U ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 [1.3.20] -guile -java +perl -php +python -ruby -tcltk 0 kB [ebuild N ] net-misc/neon-0.24.7 -expat +ssl +zlib 589 kB [ebuild N ] dev-util/subversion-1.0.6 +apache2 +berkdb -emacs -java +perl +python +ssl 5,880 kB [ebuild R ] net-www/viewcvs-0.9.2_p20030430-r1 0 kB From the viewcvs file: DEPEND="" RDEPEND="|| ( ( >=app-text/rcs-5.7 >=dev-util/cvs-1.11 ) dev-util/subversion ) sys-apps/diffutils net-www/apache" Portage 2.0.51_pre17 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r0, 2.6.0-gentoo i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-gentoo i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1 distcc 2.17 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=k6-2 -Os -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=k6-2 -Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.2/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow aalib acl apache2 bcmath berkdb bzlib calendar crypt cscope ctype curl dba dbmaker dio exif fam flatfile freetds ftp gb gd gdbm gif iconv imap informix inifile innodb ipv6 jpeg junit kerberos krb4 ldap libedit libg++ libwww maildir mbox memlimit mhash mime ming mpi mysql ncurses odbc pam pcre perl png prelude python readline samba sasl session shared simplexml slang snmp soap spell sqlite ssl svga tcpd tidy tokenizer unicode x86 xml xml2 xmprpc xsl zeo zlib"
This was a holdver from the use_reduce buggery. Should be fixed now (can't duplicate it w/ pre18).