I tried to emerge xmms and emerge looked for an ebuild names "kde-base/arts" which it did not find. I'm not even running kde, I'm running blackbox, so I'm a bit confused why emerge thinks xmms needs this package. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.type "emerge xmms" 2. 3. Actual Results: hepia01 src # emerge xmms Calculating dependencies \ emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/arts". Expected Results: emerged xmms successfully I just recently ran "emerge --depclean" which erased xmms, among other programs. So I'm sure this problem is related to something that depclean removed other than xmms. I have similar problems when reinstalling other programs depclean removed. hepia01 src # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.4.27 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.27 i686 Pentium II (Klamath) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 1 2005, 03:24:59)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:\ftp.ibiblio.org/Linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups emacs emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde kerberos libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY hepia01 src # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.4.27 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.27 i686 Pentium II (Klamath) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 1 2005, 03:24:59)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:\ftp.ibiblio.org/Linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups emacs emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde kerberos libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
You have "arts" in your USE flags. ;-)