Thanks for your reply Spider. > use emerge -vuDp world
earthdawn portage # emerge -vuDp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] x11-base/opengl-update-1.5 [ebuild N ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9 [ebuild N ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.1 [ebuild N ] app-arch/cabextract-0.6 [ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 -3dfx -sse +mmx -3dnow +xml2 +truetype +nls -cjk +doc +ipv6 -debug -static +pam -sdk -gatos Remark: Seems that the root of the problem lies deeper. emerge -up is empty. Also note that I emerged distcc-2.11.2 seperatly - it did not depend on xfree :) > qpkg -I -q -v xfree , can also tell you a list of candidates. earthdawn portage # qpkg -I -q -v xfree earthdawn portage # Nothing. No output from qpkg. Bug in portage ? Greetings, Dennis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list