I tried "emerge -avu" world today and got the following: [blocks B ] <=dev-php/php-4.99.99 (is blocking dev-php/mod_php-5.1.0_beta) This is strange, particularly because equery tells me I have php-5.0.3-r1 installed. I then typed emerge mod_php and so far (we're not finished yet) mod_php and its dependencies are building without complaint. If it makes any difference, the same emerge -avu world command also returned: [blocks B ] <=x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.8.2 (is blocking x11-themes/gtk- engines-2.6.3) [blocks B ] <app-admin/gnome-system-tools-1.1.91 (is blocking app-admin/ system-tools-backends-1.2.0) I don't know if these blockages are related to the mod_php weirdness or not. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. zebedee root # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-rc2-mm2-rc2-mm2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-rc2-mm2-rc2-mm2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 3 2005, 15:35:43)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.5, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/ share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config / usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/ defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/ texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/ platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dfx 3dnow 3dnowext X X509 aac acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts artsd audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bzlib calendar cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dba dga directfb divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode erandom esd fam ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran freetds gcj gd gdbm gif gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal i8x0 icc ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib innodb insecure-drivers ithreads jack jack- tmpfs java jikes jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal kerberos krb4 ladcca ladspa ldap libg++ libwww lm_sensors lzo mad maildir matroska md5sum memlimit mikmod mime ming mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg multitarget mysql nas ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly objc odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png portaudio povray ppds python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real rrdtool rtc samba scanner sdk sdl session slang slp sndfile speex spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vhosts vorbis wmf x86 xanim xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zeroconf zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
php-5.0.* is now in package.mask (Bug 95777); the gnome block is covered in Bug 95411. If you want php-5.0.4 put it in package.unmask; the gnome blocks have to be unmerged if you want to upgrade.