etcat -v gnome-panel [ Results for search key : gnome-panel ] [ Candidate applications found : 7 ] Only printing found installed programs. * gnome-base/gnome-panel : [M ] 1.4.1 (1.4) OVERLAY [M ] 1.4.2-r2 (1.4) OVERLAY [M ] 2.4.2 (0) OVERLAY [ ] 2.6.0 (0) OVERLAY [ ~ ] 2.6.1 (0) OVERLAY [ I] 2.6.2 (0) OVERLAY [ ~ ] 2.8.0 (0) OVERLAY the problem is that i don't have any ebuild in my overlay for gnome-panel this was just an exemple, it is the same for all packages i tried so far Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51_rc1 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.9-rc2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-rc2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/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/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache digest fixpackages sandbox strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib accessibility acpi alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups dlloader doc dv dvd dvdr encode erandom esd ethereal evo faad flac flash foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gnomedb gnutls gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml idea ieee1394 innodb joystick jpeg ldap libg++ libgda libwww mad mikmod mmx mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mysql ncurses net nls nntp nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pcsc-lite pda pdflib perl pic plotutils png postgres ppds python quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 videos x86 xml xml2 xprint xv zlib zvbi"
This has been frustrating me as well. I regularly use overlay to add ~amd64 or kill unnecessary flag-o-matic activity, and now I can't tell which versions are in the overlay and which aren't!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56740 ***