See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92443#c4 - confirmed here. :-( Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo "sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.11.8" >> /etc/portage/package.provided 2. emerge -upvD world Actual Results: Calculating world dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "~media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.9_rc3" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.9_rc3 (masked by: package.mask) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook. !!! (dependency required by "media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.9_rc3" [ebuild]) !!! Problem with ebuild media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.8 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed. Expected Results: Should work! It
See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92443#c4 - confirmed here. :-( Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo "sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.11.8" >> /etc/portage/package.provided 2. emerge -upvD world Actual Results: Calculating world dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "~media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.9_rc3" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.9_rc3 (masked by: package.mask) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook. !!! (dependency required by "media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.9_rc3" [ebuild]) !!! Problem with ebuild media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.8 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed. Expected Results: Should work! It´s a legal portage feature...
I should add step 0 - unmerge all kernels and put a custom one into /usr/src/linux
Closing as INVALID wrt http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92443#c12. Sorry for this noise.