I'm getting more weird portage behavior and I don't see how to solve this. I've tried un-emerging and re-emerging ffmpeg to no avail. Please let me know if you have any ideas.
# emerge -avDuN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild UD] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20090201-r1 [20099999] USE="3dnow%* X aac alsa%* encode%* hardcoded-tables mmx mmxext%* mp3 sdl speex%* ssse3%* theora threads vorbis x264 xvid zlib (-altivec) -amr% -bindist -custom-cflags% -debug -dirac -doc -gsm -ieee1394 -ipv6 -network -oss -schroedinger -test -v4l -v4l2% -vhook% (-amrnb%) (-amrwb%) (-icc%) (-imlib%*) (-truetype%*) (-vdpau%*)" 0 kB [1=>0] Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/berkano !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: media-video/ffmpeg:0 ('installed', '/', 'media-video/ffmpeg-20099999', 'nomerge') pulled in by >=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070129 required by ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.9999', 'nomerge') media-video/ffmpeg required by ('installed', '/', 'media-sound/picard-0.11', 'nomerge') >=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20080326 required by ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/wxsvg-1.0', 'nomerge') (and 4 more) ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20090201-r1', 'merge') pulled in by >=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20090201[encode] required by ('installed', '/', 'media-video/dvdstyler-1.7.2_beta4', 'nomerge') (and 7 more) Explanation: New USE are correctly set, but --newuse wasn't requested, so an installed package with incorrect USE happened to get pulled into the dependency graph. In order to solve this, either specify the --newuse option or explicitly reinstall 'media-video/ffmpeg:0'. # equery depends ffmpeg [ Searching for packages depending on ffmpeg... ] media-libs/libquicktime-1.0.3 (ffmpeg? >=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616) media-libs/wxsvg-1.0 (ffmpeg? >=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20080326) media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.9999 (>=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070129) media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.5 (>=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20081014) media-sound/mpd-9999 (ffmpeg? media-video/ffmpeg) media-sound/picard-0.11 (ffmpeg? media-video/ffmpeg) media-video/dvdstyler-1.7.2_beta4 (>=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20090201[encode]) media-video/vlc-0.9.8a (ffmpeg? >=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616) - Grant