It appears that the list of packages to be installed and their dependencies are being calculated at the beginning of an emerge without taking into account virtuals that would get applied during the process. I noticed this when trying to build qmail (which is a virtual/mta therefore eliminating the need to build the ssmtp package) at the same time as vcrom (which requires a virtual/mta). I've seen quirky behavior when installing groups of packages before, but at least in this case, i knew what i expected to happen during the emerge. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: (one command: "emerge metalog qmail vcron") 1064554086: >>> emerge (1 of 11) dev-libs/libpcre-4.2-r1 to / 1064554199: >>> emerge (2 of 11) app-admin/metalog-0.7-r1 to / 1064554292: >>> emerge (3 of 11) sys-apps/ucspi-tcp-0.88-r7 to / 1064554338: >>> emerge (4 of 11) net-mail/dot-forward-0.71-r1 to / 1064554365: >>> emerge (5 of 11) net-mail/checkpassword-0.90-r1 to / 1064554385: >>> emerge (6 of 11) net-mail/cmd5checkpw-0.22-r1 to / 1064554396: >>> emerge (7 of 11) sys-apps/daemontools-0.76-r3 to / 1064554431: >>> emerge (8 of 11) net-mail/qmail-1.03-r10 to / 1064554560: >>> emerge (9 of 11) net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 to / 1064554573: >>> emerge (10 of 11) net-mail/ssmtp-2.60.4 to / (at which point i cancel the emerge and issue an "emerge vcron" by itself. This time the virtual/mta from qmail is acknowledged so ssmtp is not built.) 1064554605: >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/vcron-3.0.1-r1 to /
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1343 ***
