Ok... emerge -uDNp world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] <app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 (is blocking app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1) [ebuild N ] x11-libs/motif-config-0.9 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 [ebuild N ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r3 [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.2.2-r1 [1.2.1] [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.1.23-r4 [ebuild R ] net-nds/openldap-2.2.28-r3 [ebuild N ] net-fs/samba-3.0.14a-r2 [ebuild U ] sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.2.1 [3.0-r2] [ebuild R ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.1-r2 [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1 [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 [ebuild UD] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 [0.50-r2] [ebuild UD] sys-apps/hal-0.4.8 [0.5.5.1-r2] [ebuild NS ] kde-base/arts-3.4.3 [ebuild NS ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.3 [ebuild NS ] kde-base/kompare-3.4.3 app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1 is already installed, so why would xpdf come out to be a blocker as well as try to install 2 instances of itself, even though it doesn't exist in /etc/portage/package.*? Also, what's up with the old KDE stuff trying to be built when it's been properly removed from my system? more /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep kde dev-util/kdesvn ~x86 kde-base/arts ~x86 kde-base/kde ~x86 kde-base/kde-env ~x86 kde-base/kdeaddons ~x86 kde-base/kdeadmin ~x86 kde-base/kdeartwork ~x86 kde-base/kdebase ~x86 kde-base/kdebase-pam ~x86 kde-base/kdeedu ~x86 kde-base/kdegames ~x86 kde-base/kdegraphics ~x86 kde-base/kdelibs ~x86 kde-base/kdemultimedia ~x86 kde-base/kdenetwork ~x86 kde-base/kdepim ~x86 kde-base/kdetoys ~x86 kde-base/kdeutils ~x86 kde-base/kdewebdev ~x86 Am I supposed to explicitly tell portage an exact KDE version in my package.keywords? Not necessarily a Linux n00b, but still a Gentoo/portage n00b. Your help is much appreciated! Thanks all! -- Han Solo: Well Princess, it looks like you managed to keep me here a while longer. Princess Leia: I had nothing to do with it. General Rieekan thinks it's dangerous for anyone to leave the system until they've activated the energy shield. Han Solo: That's a good story. I think you just can't bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight. Princess Leia: I don't know where you get you delusions, laser brain! Chewbacca laughs Han Solo: Laugh it up, fuzzball!
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre12 Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aim alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp browserplugin bzip2 calendar cdr crypt cups curl dbus directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnutls gpm gtk2 hal icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber jack java javascript jpeg kde kerberos lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mime mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nis nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline recode ruby samba sasl sdl snmp sockets sox spell sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l vcd vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY