After some strangeness with "emerge", I cleared my /usr/portage ... and built it cleanly new, using link /etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-2004.2 It seems that htdig has been moved from net-www to www-misc. Thus, the line DEPEND="net-www/htdig" should become DEPEND="www-misc/htdig" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge 2. 3. Actual Results: crashes with hint upon (*)DEPEND problem Expected Results: change DEPEND as proposed: After that emerge works just fine. Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.26-sensors) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-sensors i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS=" -O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer pipe " CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS=" -O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer pipe " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages noauto sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror " MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups directfb encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww linguas_de mad maildir matrox mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
trying for a quick service appoach.