This i what i get when i pretend to install eclipse-sdk: ============================================================================= # USE="-motif" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv eclipse-sdk (~) These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] app-shells/tcsh-6.12-r3 -cjk +perl 804 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/ant-1.6.1-r1 -doc 6,058 kB [ebuild N ] dev-util/eclipse-sdk-2.1.3-r1 +gnome +gtk -kde -motif 44,010 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/xerces-2.6.2 -doc 5,200 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/bsh-2.0_beta1 274 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/log4j-1.2.8 -doc 2,454 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/jikes-1.20 598 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/avalon-logkit-1.2.2 -doc 409 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/commons-logging-1.0.3-r1 -doc +jikes -junit 44 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/regexp-1.3 -doc 124 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/jdepend-2.6 -doc +jikes 371 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/jython-2.1-r2 2,715 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/rhino-1.5-r5 -doc +jikes 1,486 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/jzlib-1.0.4 -doc +jikes 46 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/jsch-0.1.14 -doc +jikes 182 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/bcel-5.1 -doc +jikes 12,338 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/xalan-2.5.2 -doc 5,603 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/oro-2.0.8 -doc +jikes 337 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/antlr-2.7.3 +jikes 1,316 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/commons-collections-3.0 -doc +jikes -junit 1,042 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/commons-beanutils-1.6.1-r1 +jikes -junit 144 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/junit-3.8.1 435 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/ant-optional-1.6.1-r1 -doc -javamail 6,058 kB ============================================================================== What i dont understand is why tcsh has to be installed. I looked through all of the ebuilds and I didnt seem to find any dependencies to tcsh. What gives!? I suppose I could as a workaround unmerge tcsh afterwards, but thats ugly! Here is some info: emerge info (~) Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.20-gentoo-r11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-s -j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/barran/portage /home/barran/bmg-main" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acpi alsa apache2 avi berkdb cdr crypt curl dga dvd encode esd foomaticdb gd gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib javascript jikes jpeg libwww mad mbox mcal memlimit mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc mpeg mpi mysql nls nocardbus oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime radeon readline samba sasl sdl slang snmp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype usb video_cards_radeon wmf x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND} >=dev-java/ant-1.5.3 >=sys-apps/findutils-4.1.7 >=app-shells/tcsh-6.11" That's the reason (copied from the eclipse-sdk-2.1.3-r1 ebuild)
I am very sorry. I thought I was installing eclipse-sdk-3.0_rc8, but because it is masked in package.mask it confused me. Thanks for the quick response!