On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:07 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: > The best way to resolve this, I've found is to put the following into > your > /etc/portage/package.mask file. > > =sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.0 > =sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.0 > > I masked them because some things depend on com_err, and that is part > of > e2fsprogs-libs in the 1.41.0 version. Until the upstreams of these > packages > update their packages, you can't use the new version, unless you're > willing to > unmerge all of the affected packages.
Which is what you should do, as has been mentioned previously in this thread.