bumbaldi icewm # emerge -uDpv world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "dev-util/pkgconfig)". !!! Problem with ebuild x11-wm/icewm-1.2.16-r1 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed. Due to: gnome? ( gnome-base/gnome-libs gnome-base/gnome-desktop dev-util/pkgconfig) Fixed by adding space: gnome? ( gnome-base/gnome-libs gnome-base/gnome-desktop dev-util/pkgconfig ) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: My first bug fix, :P bumbaldi icewm # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="YES" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -m3dnow -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /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/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -m3dnow -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://ftp.rhnet.is/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts canna caps cdr cjk cpdflib crypt cups divx4linux doc dvd encode esd fastcgi fbcon flac foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif ginac gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib jabber java jikes jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mime mmx mmx2 mng motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png posix python quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang sockets speex spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tidy tokenizer truetype unicode usb videos wavelan x86 xml xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
Some portage versions don't catch this, apparently, but it's illegal nonetheless.