I discovered that I have both freetype 1.3.1-r3 and 2.1.5-r1 installed. When trying to emerge world portage tried to update to 1.3.1-r4, however running emerge freetype wanted to reinstall 2.1.5-r1. Unemerging freetype-1.3.1-r3 broke Eterm (libttf.so.2) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure you have Eterm emerged, and check to have freetype-1.3.1-rX (needed) and freetype-2.1.5 (latest stable) 2. emerge -avC freetype-1.3.5-rX 3. run Eterm Actual Results: Eterm could not be run because libttf.so.2 was not found Expected Results: freetype-2.1.5 should contain libttf.so.2 Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.7-hardened-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-hardened-r8 i686 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /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/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks prelink sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath bitmap-fonts bzlib calendar caps cdr crypt cscope cups curl curlwrappers dedicated dga directfb divx4linux dvb dvd encode esd ethereal exif fam fastcgi fbcon foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imap imlib ipv6 jabber jack java javascript jikes jpeg kde kerberos krb4 ladcca lcms ldap libg++ libgda libwww mad maildir mailwrapper mcal memlimit mikmod mime mmap mng motif mozilla mpeg mpi mysql mysqli nas ncurses nocardbus nocd oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl php plotutils png postgres ppds prelude python qt quicktime readline ruby sasl sdl slang slp snmp sockets socks5 spell spl sse ssl svga szip tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tokenizer truetype usb vhosts videos wmf wxwindows x86 xface xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid yahoo zlib"
freetype is SLOT-ed