Hi Nick, On my system, I have apache1 (SLOT="1") installed, but portage wishes me to Upgrade to apache2 (SLOT="2"). This seems erroneous behaviour. Similar things arise for gnome1 and gnome2 (I only need minimal gnome1 stuff to run galeon, but portage wants me to install most of gnome2).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4698 ***