When unmasked, gnome-spell-1.0_pre1 fails to compile because it cannot find libcapplet-2.0. Following is the end of the ebuild: checking GNOME_SPELL_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/libgnomeui-2.0 -I/usr/include/libgnome-2.0 -I/usr/include/libgnomecanvas-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/libart-2.0 -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/libbonoboui-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/libbonobo-2.0 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/linc-1.0 -I/usr/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 checking GNOME_SPELL_LIBS... -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lbonoboui-2 -lgnomecanvas-2 -lgnome-2 -lart_lgpl_2 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lbonobo-2 -lgconf-2 -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -llinc -lgthread-2.0 -lpthread -lglade-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lz -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangox-1.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 checking for libgnomeui-2.0 >= 1.112.1 libbonoboui-2.0 >= 1.112.1 libglade-2.0 >= 1.99.9 libcapplet-2.0 >= 1.9.0... Package libcapplet-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcapplet-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libcapplet-2.0' found configure: error: Library requirements (libgnomeui-2.0 >= 1.112.1 libbonoboui-2.0 >= 1.112.1 libglade-2.0 >= 1.99.9 libcapplet-2.0 >= 1.9.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. !!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully. !!! Function src_compile, Line 16, Exitcode 1 !!! (no error message) !!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/app-text/gnome-spell/gnome-spell-1.0_pre1.ebuild .
gnome-spell-1.0 has been removed from the portage tree. It is no longer there. remove it, then emerge rsync, you shouldn't get it
Feel free to reopen this bug if you still get gnome-spell-1.0_pre1