Please change sys-apps/ucspi-tcp to provide virtual/inetd (tcpserver provides an inetd-like service). I'm currently running slidentd via tcpserver and the new net-misc/slidentd ebuild wants to install xinetd because it now depends on virtual/inetd. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.26) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ distcc 2.13 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium -mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /usr/vice/etc /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/afs/modload /etc/gconf /etc/make.globals /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium -mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://hybrid.sascha.silbe.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acl afs apm avi berkdb cdr crypt doc dvd dvdr encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci imap imlib ipv6 j-noaim j-nomsn j-noyahoo jabber jpeg krb4 lcms libg++ libwww linguas_en,de lvm1 mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx monitor mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib png postgres python qt qtmt quicktime readline samba sdl skey spell sse ssl tetex tiff truetype unicode x86 xml xml2 xv xvid zlib"
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