Non-hardmasked packages are depending on the (now hardmasked) gal-1.99.11 An example - mysql-query-browser-1.1.8 (stable) is indirectly depending on this package: From RDEPEND of dev-db/mysql-query-browser-1.1.18.ebuild: =gnome-extra/gtkhtml-3.0* From RDEPEND of gnome-extra/gtkhtml-3.0.10 and gnome-extra/gtkhtml-3.0.10-r1: =gnome-extra/gal-1.99.11* From package.mask: # GNOME 1.x Removal Mask (15 Dec 2006) ... <gnome-extra/gal-2 Portage 2.1.2_rc1-r6 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-rc4-mm1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-rc4-mm1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d/binutils /etc/env.d/gcc /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" LANG="en_CA.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en ja" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/xfce44rc1 /usr/local/xfce44rc2" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa audiofile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cgi cjk cli cracklib cups curl dmx dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss encode exo expat fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fifo flac fontconfig fortran gd gdbm gif glitz glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile howl icecast iconv idn imagemagick imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k junit kernel_linux lcms libcaca libg++ linguas_en linguas_ja lua mad matroska mikmod mng mouse mozilla mp3 mpeg musepack mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg openal opengl pam pcre perl php png posix pppd pulseaudio python quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sdl session speex spell spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tetex theora thunar-vfs tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_tdfx video_cards_vesa vorbis x264 xine xinerama xml xml2 xorg xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
sorry about that, sync issue caused a bad mask atom, fixed in portage
