The forum post at the above URL is a person with the identical problem to mine. When unmerging qscintilla-1.61, it fails with error message: >>> Unmerging dev-python/qscintilla-1.61... No package files given... Grabbing a set. QA Notice: ECLASS 'portability' inherited illegally in dev-python/qscintilla-1.61 /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1524: /usr/portage/eclass/qt.eclass: No such file or directory !!! ERROR: dev-python/qscintilla-1.61 failed. !!! Function inherit, Line 1525, Exitcode 1 !!! died sourcing /usr/portage/eclass/qt.eclass in inherit() !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. !!! FAILED prerm: 1 As the forum post suggested, `touch /usr/portage/eclass/qt.eclass` allowed me to unmerge qscintilla-1.61 emerge --info: Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz 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: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /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="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en ja" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acl acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 canna cdr cjk crypt cups curl divx4linux dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freewnn gdbm gif glut gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde lcms libcaca libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang snmp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_en linguas_ja userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101661 ***
