emerge joomla gives the following error on my php4 system: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) www-apps/joomla-1.0.8 to / >>> md5 files ;-) joomla-1.0.8.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/postinstall-en.txt >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-joomla-1.0.8 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) joomla-1.0.8.tar.bz2 !!! ERROR: www-apps/joomla-1.0.8 failed. !!! Function has_php, Line 233, Exitcode 1 !!! Unable to find an installed dev-lang/php package !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. AFAIK, there are no dev-lang/php-4* packages available. Joomla DOES support PHP4 however. How to emerge joomla on a PHP4 system...? emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.4.31-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.31-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 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: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.uni-c.dk/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex aac aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm asterisk audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib ccache cddb cgi chroot clamav cli cluster crypt curl curlwrappers divx4linux doc dts eds emboss encode esd ethereal evo exif expat faad fam flood foomaticdb fortran freetype frlargefiles gd gd-external gdbm gdlib geoip gif gkrellm glut gpm gstreamer gtk2 idea idn imagemagick imlib imlib2 innkeywords ipv6 java jce jikes jpeg junit ldap libg++ libwww lm_sensors maildir mhash mmx mmx2 mng mp3 mpeg mpeg4 msdav mysql mysqli ncurses nls nocd odbc offensive ogg opengl opens pam pcre pdflib perl php png posix postgres python quicktime readline recode rrdtool ruby samba session slang slp snmp sox spamassassin speedo spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl tcpd threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vhosts virus-scan vorbis webdav wmf xinetd xml xml2 xscreensaver xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
didn't look good/long enough... ;)