I know that they are experimental packages but... Packages for emacs-cvs-23-0.0-r[0-7] come from the unicode-2 branch of cvs emacs while the newer emacs-cvs-23.0.50 comes from the Head branch. Thus Xft (with nice font support) is no longer present. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge emacs-cvs 2. 3.
(In reply to comment #0) > Packages for emacs-cvs-23-0.0-r[0-7] come from the unicode-2 branch of cvs > emacs while the newer emacs-cvs-23.0.50 comes from the Head branch. And our ebuilds install them in different SLOTs, so they can be installed concurrently: $ eselect emacs list Available GNU Emacs symlink targets: [1] emacs-18 [2] emacs-21 [3] emacs-22 [4] emacs-22-cvs [5] emacs-23 * [6] emacs-23-unicode XEmacs is also installed > Thus Xft (with nice font support) is no longer present. You may unmask and install emacs-cvs-23.0.0-r7 and use "eselect emacs" to select emacs-23-unicode.