laptop tmp # emerge subversion Calculating dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the >=net-www/apache-2* package conflicts with another package. !!! both can't be installed on the same system together. !!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers. laptop tmp # emerge -p subversion These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] >=net-www/apache-2* (from pkg dev-util/subversion-1.1.1-r3) [ebuild N ] app-shells/bash-completion-config-0.8 [ebuild N ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 [ebuild N ] net-misc/neon-0.24.7 [ebuild N ] dev-util/subversion-1.1.1-r3 laptop tmp # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 07:43:01)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /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 autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d acpi arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr emboss encode esd f77 fam fastcgi fbcon fftw firebird flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran gcjgd gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk2 hardened imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 jack java jpeg junit 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 scanner sdl slang slp speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb wmf xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib linguas_it linguas_en" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge subversion Actual Results: The conflict gets announced. Expected Results: Compilation of the subversion packages, I don't think the conflict should be real: the two packages are quite different in nautre and they'd not conflict at all. Just ask. I think I've put everything in the description.
You need to set the apache2 use flag for subversion.