Something thinks it needs it.  Check out the depends with equery and see what 
it tells you.
> 
> From: Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2005/12/06 Tue PM 06:32:56 EST
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Help with world  update
> 
> Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package 
> (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package 
> retrieval.
> 
> My first question is why is portage trying to emerge this package as I 
> do not have it installed in the first place ( I had it once a while ago, 
> then it was unmerged) and my second is how tell portage not to emerge 
> the package.
> 
> I'm presuming that there was an error during the unmerging such that 
> portage still thinks the package is installed, what can I do to fix this?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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