I ran emerge --sync then emerge --update --deep world and I get the following. Calculating world dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-devel/autoconf" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword) # <vapier@gentoo.org> (20 Oct 2004) # New SLOT-ed autoconf/automake - sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 (masked by: missing keyword) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge --sync 2.emerge --update --deep world 3. Actual Results: I get the following error Calculating world dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-devel/autoconf" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword) # <vapier@gentoo.org> (20 Oct 2004) # New SLOT-ed autoconf/automake - sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 (masked by: missing keyword) Expected Results: portage updated.
2.59-r5 has all KEYWORDS you neglected to post `emerge info` so i'm going to assume you did something to screw up your system ;)