[gentoo-user] emerge: xorg-x11 requires gentoo-sources

[Richard Ruth]

On one of two gentoo (x86_64 AMD Opteron) systems I just emerged the new portage-2.1 on, emerge is requiring gentoo-sources as a dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7".  Why? 

The 2nd system with an identical 2.6.16.20 vanilla-sources kernel does not have this problem.

I tried removing the /usr/portage/x11-base directory and then running "emerge --sync". Which works buth then:

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# emerge -pv -u --deep world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies /
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7 (masked by: package.mask)
# don't want gentoo-sources

- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1 (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r5 (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r8 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r7 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r6 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r5 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r4 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r2 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r1 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r4 (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r9 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r8 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7" [ebuild])



!!! Problem resolving dependencies for sys-apps/portage
!!! Depgraph creation failed.

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Yes, I do use /etc/portage/package.mask to mask out gentoo-sources, but I have done that for years.  (Also, my 2nd system has the same package.mask and doesn't have a problem with xorg-x11.)

Any suggestions on how to fix this dependencies issue?  I suspect a portage cache issue that 'emerge --sync' is not fixing.