emerge rpm fails when beecrypt is installed. There is no reason that should happen any more I think...if the ebuild is modified eveyrthing works fine.
Reopen with some error messages and emerge --info... This is not a bug report.
opteron local # emerge rpm Calculating dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the dev-libs/beecrypt package conflicts with another package. !!! both can't be installed on the same system together. !!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers. opteron local # emerge --pretend rpm These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-libs/beecrypt (is blocking app-arch/rpm-4.2-r1) [ebuild N ] app-arch/rpm-4.2-r1 opteron local # emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15.1-vs2.1.0.5.1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15.1-vs2.1.0.5.1 i686 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium3 -pipe" 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/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://10.206.123.25/pub/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://10.206.123.25/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups curl eds emboss encode expat foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcltk tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121046 ***