When i try to emerge -avuND world, i have this error... I know that i can resolve it adding good sentences to package.mask, but i think it should be resolved by developers Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -avuND world 2. 3. Actual Results: [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc11 [2.1.4_rc10] USE="-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="pl" 73 kB *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild U ] app-editors/nano-2.0.7 [2.0.6] USE="ncurses nls spell unicode -debug -justify -minimal -slang" 1,332 kB [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-ctags-1.3 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.12.3 [2.12.1] USE="-accessibility -debug -doc -examples" 13,436 kB [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-fontconfig-1.0 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.5.0-r1 [2.5.0] USE="xml -doc" 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-fonts/dejavu-2.22.20071220.2156 [2.21] USE="X" 3,664 kB [blocks B ] <=app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.3 (is blocking app-admin/eselect-ctags-1.3) Total: 7 packages (5 upgrades, 2 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 18,503 kB !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!! at the same time on the same system. For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked localhost mat # Expected Results: It should actualize my system emerge --info: Portage 2.1.4_rc10 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.23-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2400+ Timestamp of tree: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:16:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://src.gentoo.pl http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl " LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" LINGUAS="pl en" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/home/mat/" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/arcon-portage /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/portage/local/layman/custom-kernels /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa atm bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cdrom cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dhcp dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran freetype gd gdbm gif glitz gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv isdnlog jpeg kde kerberos lcms ldap mad midi mikmod moznopango mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp pam pci pcmcia pcre pdf pertty png pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl startup-notification svg symlink tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales utf8 vcd vorbis win32codecs x86 xcomposite xine xml xml2 xorg xv zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="nv" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl en" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked Please read the documentation it linked you to. You have to chose to mask it, or remove the package that is blocking it. We can't do that for you.
You may safely unmerge eselect-emacs-1.3, next world update will DTRT then.