after an emerge rsync i ran emerge -pu world and this is what i get: Calculating world dependencies - !!! Error: couldn't find match for ">=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.0.2" in gnome-base/gnome-2.0.1_rc1 if you unmask gnome-vfs then it wants gnome orbit Calculating world dependencies \ !!! Error: couldn't find match for ">=gnome-base/ORBit2-2.4.1" in gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.0.2 so i find it impossible to update my sustem without telling it to not use gnome, however if it wants to update somthing that should use gnome it will be a problem
okay, there appears to be a problem with package.mask. Sorry for the inconvenience, it was a - instead of a _ at one place. rsync agan and see if it remains