The nas package tries to merge xfree along with it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -pv nas Actual Results: tucaxi ~ $ emerge -pv nas These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] x11-base/xorg-x11 (from pkg x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6) [ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6 -3dfx -3dnow -bindist -cjk -debug -debug -doc -ipv6 +mmx +nls +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype +xml2 65,684 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/nas-1.6c-r2 -static 1,088 kB Total size of downloads: 66,773 kB Expected Results: nas should build with xfree or xorg. tucaxi ~ $ emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.llarian.net/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bidi bzlib cdparanoia cdr crypt cups dvd encode ethereal faad flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang sockets speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tidy tiff truetype wifi wxwindows x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
From the ebuild: # This is ridculuous, we only need xmkmf, but no other package # provides it. 20020607 (Seemant): Actually, the homepage says it needs # the entire X11 build environment, so this is ok. RDEPEND="virtual/x11"