emerge -pu system says: [blocks B ] sys-apps/sysvinit (from pkg sys-apps/baselayout-1.9.4-r6) [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.9.4-r6 [1.9.4-r5] I'm already running sysvinit (there is no other option for the init process) and would not unmerge it in order to merge the new one! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -f system 2. emerge -pu system 3. emerge -u system Actual Results: The emerge at step #3 fails with the message: Calculating dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the sys-apps/sysvinit package conflicts with another package. !!! both can't be installed on the same system together. !!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers. Expected Results: Updating the baselayout package, I suppose. Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" 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/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo/ http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d acpi arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr encode f77 fastcgi fbcon fftw flac flash foomaticdb gcj gd gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk2 hardened imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms ldap lesstif libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpi mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang slp speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb wmf x86 xml2 xmms xosd xprint xv zlib linguas_it linguas_en"
no one told you to emerge sysvinit, unmerge it baselayout-1.9.x includes it :P
