I've spotted the following ebuilds that produce the $SUMMARY message: $ emerge xterm -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies - Invalid package name: x11-base/xfree $ emerge cairo -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies - Invalid package name: x11-base/xfree They can both be fixed by removing x11-base/xfree from the DEPEND statement. $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r3i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /sbin /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/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks emergemail fixpackages nostrip notitles sandboxsfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X aac aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib calendar cddb cdparanoia cdr codecs cscope cups curl curlwrappers dbase devmap divx4linux dmx doc dv dvd dvdr dvdread encode escreen esd exif faac faad fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb ftp ggi gif gimp gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib innodb interbase iodbc java javascript jbig joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k junit kde libg++ libwww live lzw-tiff mad maildir mbox mikmod mime mmx mmx2 mng monkey mono motif mozcalendar moznocompose moznoirc mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql mysqli nas ncurses network nls no_wxgtk1 nocardbus nomac nptl oav odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline rtc samba scanner sdl slang slp sox speex spell sqlite sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd tga theora tiff timidity truetype unicode usb vanilla videos vim-with-x wmf x86 xbase xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xprint xv xvid yv12 zlib linguas_en_GB.UTF8"
Never saw such a message. Do you have x11-base/xfree in rsync_excludes maybe? The dependency is "xorg OR xfree" and can't be changed for obvious reasons.
Carlo wrote: Never saw such a message. Do you have x11-base/xfree in > rsync_excludes maybe? No. > The dependency is "xorg OR xfree" and can't be changed for obvious reasons. Yes, that's what I understood and I couldn't see what was wrong with it. Found the problem: For some time now, because `emerge -i` is deprecated, I've had "x11-base/xfree" in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. Once I removed that the problem disappeared. Sorry for the noise!
