I am trying to install Gentoo on an old laptop following the online handbook. I got as far as installing the kernel sources (see here ): the installation with emerge --ask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources seems to run fine, until it fails with no precise error message. The log file /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6/temp/build.log contains no error message. The last lines in this file read * Final size of build directory: 1 KiB * Final size of installed tree: 623669 KiB ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/doc I also looked at /var/log/emerge.log which also does not contain any error message: 1473188561: Started emerge on: set 06, 2016 21:02:40 1473188561: *** emerge --ask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources 1473188622: >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6 to / 1473188622: === (1 of 1) Cleaning (sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6::/usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-4.4.6.ebuild) 1473188698: === (1 of 1) Compiling/Merging (sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6::/usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-4.4.6.ebuild) 1473189553: === (1 of 1) Merging (sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6::/usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-4.4.6.ebuild) 1473190741: *** Finished. Cleaning up... 1473190743: *** exiting unsuccessfully with status '1'. 1473190751: *** terminating. I do not know what I should check next. Any idea? **EDIT** Here is the content of /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6/temp/build.log (I have removed some non-printable characters that appeared at the beginning of each line): Package: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6 Repository: gentoo Maintainer: kernel@gentoo.org USE: abi_x86_32 elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU x86 FEATURES: preserve-libs sandbox userpriv usersandbox >>> Preparing to unpack ... >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking linux-4.4.tar.xz to /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6/work >>> Unpacking genpatches-4.4-8.base.tar.xz to /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6/work/patches >>> Unpacking genpatches-4.4-8.extras.tar.xz to /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6/work/patches Excluding Patch #5000_enable-additional-cpu-optimizations-for-gcc.patch ... Excluding Patch #5015_kdbus*.patch ... Applying 1000_linux-4.4.1.patch (-p1) ... Applying 1001_linux-4.4.2.patch (-p1) ... Applying 1002_linux-4.4.3.patch (-p1) ... Applying 1003_linux-4.4.4.patch (-p1) ... Applying 1004_linux-4.4.5.patch (-p1) ... Applying 1005_linux-4.4.6.patch (-p1) ... Applying 1500_XATTR_USER_PREFIX.patch (-p1) ... Applying 1510_fs-enable-link-security-restrictions-by-default.patch (-p1) ... Applying 2700_ThinkPad-30-brightness-control-fix.patch (-p1) ... Applying 2900_dev-root-proc-mount-fix.patch (-p1) ... Applying 4200_fbcondecor-3.19.patch (-p1) ... Applying 4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch (-p1) ... >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6/work/linux-4.4.6-gentoo ... >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6/work/linux-4.4.6-gentoo ... >>> Source configured. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6/work/linux-4.4.6-gentoo ... >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6 >>> Install gentoo-sources-4.4.6 into /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6/image/ category sys-kernel >>> Copying sources ... >>> Completed installing gentoo-sources-4.4.6 into /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6/image/ Final size of build directory: 1 KiB Final size of installed tree: 623669 KiB ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/doc

I can't seem to figure out how to install pfl in order to get the e-file command. It was mentioned here that the pfl package would install the e-file command. So started a Gentoo Docker container and gave it a try: $ docker run -ti gentoo/stage3 bash $ emerge --sync ... $ emerge app-portage/pfl ... $ e-file bash: e-file: command not found The output mentioned somehting about use --autounmask-write, so I tried again: emerge --autounmask-write app-portage/pfl $ e-file bash: e-file: command not found The output also mentiond something about sys-apps/util-linux, so I installed that too and tried again: $ emerge sys-apps/util-linux ... $ emerge --autounmask-write app-portage/pfl ... $ e-file bash: e-file: command not found I also tried simply running emerge pfl: $ emerge pfl ... $ e-file bash: e-file: command not found Then I started a new bash session and tried again: $ bash ... $ emerge --autounmask-write app-portage/pfl ... $ e-file bash: e-file: command not found Nothing seems to work... It also mentions IMPORTANT: 5 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.. I'm not sure what to make out of this. I just want to install a simple package on a fresh docker container. Surely this shouldn't involve manually changing config files, right? Full output of emerge --autounmask-write app-portage/pfl:

* IMPORTANT: 9 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news read to view new items.


 * IMPORTANT: 4 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.
 * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
 * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] sys-libs/libcap-ng-0.8.2-r1  USE="-python -static-libs" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_9 -python3_8" 
[ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.36.2-r1  USE="caps*" 
[ebuild  N     ] app-portage/pfl-3.1-r1  USE="network-cron" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_9 -python3_8" 

The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
 (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by app-portage/pfl-3.1-r1::gentoo[network-cron]
# required by app-portage/pfl (argument)
>=sys-apps/util-linux-2.36.2-r1 caps

Autounmask changes successfully written.

 * IMPORTANT: 5 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.
 * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
 * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.

Content of /etc/portage

$ tree /etc/portage
/etc/portage
|-- make.conf
|-- make.profile -> ../../var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/default/linux/amd64/17.1
|-- package.use
|   `-- zz-autounmask
|-- repo.postsync.d
|   `-- example
`-- savedconfig
    `-- sys-apps
        `-- busybox-1.32.1-r1

Installing other packages like emerge app-text/tree worked just fine btw.

I want to install xfce on gentoo but after running

#emerge --ask xfce-base/xfce4-meta

there is error that the packages are blocked and I tried many things but none of them work.

So. Been going at the gentoo install without proper instructions until very recently. After emerge-webrsync stage of the install a message pops up saying "your current profile is invalid". It appears to be a blocker on emerging to kick off the rest of the install. This doesn't seem to be an issue with the laptop (NIC is working and changing ssd does nothing for this issue) and I've validated the SHA-512 against the DIGEST.asc associated with the downloaded tarball. It seems unlikely the livecd I'm using to install would have been rewritten over this network connection. eselect is functioning, and experimentation with the 35 defaults yields no results. Have created a custom profile but am having issues having it appear on eselect. Confused somewhat on the documentation for this, continuing to experiment. Suggestions welcome. Have already run eselect profile list and eselect profile set for the default profiles. The issue persists after an emerge --sync. In fact the issue first occurred after an emerge --sync. Have readlink'd the make.profile in portage and tried a few different symlinks. Resources: * https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Profile_(Portage) * https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Eselect/User_guide * https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sakaki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Installing_the_Gentoo_Stage_3_Files

I cannot run emerge-webrsync because it says that snapshots are not found. Nor can I execute mirrorselect, since I get command not found. Finally, I tried to run: $ emerge --ask app-portage/mirrorselect but this returns the following error: !!! Repository 'x-portage' is missing masters attribute in '/usr/portage/metadata/layout.conf' !!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in this file for future compatibility !!! /etc/portage/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges. !!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/ !!! (You can safely ignore this message when syncing. It's harmless.) !!! Your current profile is invalid. If you have just changed your profile !!! configuration, you should revert back to the previous configuration. !!! Allowed actions are limited to --help, --info, --search, --sync, and !!! --version.

On a freshly installed Gentoo 2.13 system, I ran these commands to install my first package:

$ cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System release 2.13
$ sudo emaint -a sync
$ sudo emerge app-editors/emacs
$ emacs                            # It runs successfully

The install was successful. As a test, I immediately tried to remove the same package, and the operation failed:

$ sudo emerge -cav app-editors/emacs

Calculating dependencies... done!
  app-editors/emacs-29.1-r1 pulled in by:
    app-emacs/emacs-common-1.9 requires >=app-editors/emacs-23.1:*

>>> No packages selected for removal by depclean

Why does this happen? Did I issue the wrong remove command? I would think that the simplest test of a package manager is to install and remove a package on a fresh copy of the OS. Thank you very much for any clarity.

Intro/Context - https://ibb.co/8jkBNLy. What I am trying to do: I want to install kde-plasma desktop enviroment, on my gentoo machine that works only in text mode now. emerge --ask kde-plasma/plasma-meta won't work, because of libogg package, so I tried to install only this package: emerge --ask media-libs/libogg and then I saw there was a problem with emerge command, that uses wget and wget cannot download media with broken secutiry certificate by default, so I needed to create /etc/make.conf with following contents: GENTOO MACHINE / # cat /etc/make.conf RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c --no-check-cddertificate \${URI} -P \${DISTFILES}/\${FILE}" FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget --no-check-certificate \${URI} -P \${DISTFILES}/\${FILE}" After that emerge --ask media-libs/libogg produces this output , but still doesn't install. I also tried downloading and installing .tar.xz of libogg myself, but it didn't work as well. I did: ./configure make make install And sure, it created lib directory with some files, but when I tried emerge --ask kde-plasma/plasma-meta again, and it was still trying to download libogg anyways. I would appreciate if you could help me with setting up my KDE Plasma desktop enviroment in any way, if you need anymore info check Intro/Context , or ask me some questions.

When I install many packages at once, I use emerge --jobs=8 firefox vim. This will install the packages, but it won't run everything in paralel. For example, it will wait compile rust before compiling vim, while only 1 job (rust) is running. Are there any options to improve this?

I'm currently installing Gentoo by following the Handbook. I ran emerge -uDN @world after changing USE flags and it's taking hours, but I would like to continue with [the next step](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Kernel) . Is it fine to emerge the kernel and other packages I'll need in a separate tty without waiting for it to finish? Pacman prevents you from running multiple instances by checking for pacman.lock, but emerge doesn't seem to do the same.

Whenever I install a package with an EULA, portage asks me to add it to package.license: The following license changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.license" in the portage(5) man page for more details) #required by chrome-binary-plugins (argument) >=www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins-9999 google-chrome #required by google-chrome (argument) >=www-client/google-chrome-26.0.1410.40_beta189199:beta google-chrome Since I don't read the licence anyway and portage isn't even asking me to do so, I'd like to globally disable this check. How to do that?

Gentoo emerge cannot find name of package In attempt to prevent the installation of dev-python/setuptools-53.0.0 failed emerge: error: Invalid Atom(s) in --exclude parameter: 'dev-python/setuptools-53.0.0' (only package names and slot atoms (with wildcards) allowed) Where is the mistake, please show the correct way.

I would like to use only one Python3 version for all my packages in a Gentoo system. So I looked for the installed versions and found out that three versions are installed: 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8. I would like to convert all packages to 3.8 and delete the previous versions. My plan: - Unmerge Python 3.6 and 3.7. - Set the USE flag for packages that use Python to python3_8 -python3_7 -python3_6. - Rebuild those packages with emerge --update --newuse to let them use Python 3.8. So after removing Python 3.6 with: emerge --ask -C dev-lang/python:3.6 I added the line virtual/python-ipaddress python3_8 -python3_7 -python3_6 to /etc/portage/package.use and run emerge --ask --update --newuse --deep virtual/python-ipaddress and I get These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/python-3.6.11-r2 [2.7.18-r1, 3.7.8-r2, 3.8.4-r1] USE="(threads%*)" Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] I do not understand this behaviour: why does emerge want to install python-3.6 if /etc/portage/package.use specifies that it should use 3.8? And why does the USE variable not contain any Python specification? Is there another configuration file that has higher priority than /etc/portage/package.use and redefines the USE variable? From what I understand by reading the documentation , this should not happen. ------

So, I want to install the vimb browser from a Gentoo overlay called 'booboo'. I added the overlay with layman and ran emerge vimb. This is what I get:

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.5.0:2".
(dependency required by "www-client/vimb-2.10::booboo[-gtk3]" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "vimb" [argument])

Ideas? Thank you! PS: Output of emerge -s webkit-gtk:

net-libs/webkit-gtk
Latest version available: 2.28.4
Latest version installed: 2.28.3
Size of files: 20,923 KiB
Homepage:      https://www.webkitgtk.org 
Description:   Open source web browser engine
License:       LGPL-2+ BSD

I am using Gentoo (for the first time, actually). I am trying to set up package management. I discovered that I have to set up portage (emerge). While doing so, I had to run emerge --sync. That gave the message:

Use eselect news read to view items.

I tried that, but I got: zsh: command not found: eselect I discovered a package: app-admin/eselect, so I tried:

emerge --ask app-admin/select

Then I get:

!!! /etc/portage/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges.
!!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/
!!! (You can safely ignore this message when syncing. It's harmless.)


!!! Your current profile is invalid. If you have just changed your profile
!!! configuration, you should revert back to the previous configuration.
!!! Allowed actions are limited to --help, --info, --search, --sync, and
!!! --version.

Update: Turns out I was mistaken. I thought I was working in a flavour of gentoo, and so I was trying to setup portage manually, since the emerge command turned out to be missing. Turns out, I was working in a flavour of CentOS, and so yum was what I needed to use. I had downloaded and un-tarred a portage tarball into a CentOS flavour, which explains why eselect was not there, and in turn explains why I had that sort of weird chicken & egg like problem between the emerge and eselect commands. As per Andy Dalton's answer, I was yesterday looking at manually creating the make.profile symlink myself, to some file under /usr/portage/profiles/, but I was having a hard time figuring out which file to link it to. Anyway, I got yum working, and I'm not sure what would happen if I went in to get portage working too. That could probably lead to some sort of package management conflict issues, so I'm not sure I want to experiment with that.

On Funtoo Linux I has no sense how to solve requirements. I added lines but again and again I cannot run openshot installation # tail -n 5 /etc/portage/package.use >=x11-libs/libXcursor-1.1.14 abi_x86_32 >=media-video/openshot-2.2.0 dbus opengl svg gui network printsupport widgets opengl webkit sql positioning webchannel python_targets_python3_4 >=dev-python/PyQt5-5.8.2 dbus opengl svg python_targets_python3_4 # emerge openshot Calculating dependencies... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "dev-python/PyQt5[svg,webkit,python_targets_python3_4(-)?,python_targets_python3_5(-)?,-python_single_target_jython2_7(-),-python_single_target_pypy(-),-python_single_target_pypy3(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),python_single_target_python3_4(+)?,python_single_target_python3_5(+)?]" has unmet requirements. - dev-python/PyQt5-5.8.2::python-kit USE="dbus opengl svg -bluetooth -debug -declarative -designer -doc -examples -gles2 -gui -help -location -multimedia -network -positioning -printsupport -sensors -serialport -sql -testlib -webchannel -webengine -webkit -websockets -widgets -x11extras -xmlpatterns" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 -python3_5 -python3_6" The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: opengl? ( gui widgets ) svg? ( gui widgets ) webkit? ( gui network printsupport widgets ) The above constraints are a subset of the following complete expression: any-of ( python_targets_python2_7 python_targets_python3_4 python_targets_python3_5 python_targets_python3_6 ) bluetooth? ( gui ) declarative? ( gui network ) designer? ( widgets ) help? ( gui widgets ) location? ( positioning ) multimedia? ( gui network ) opengl? ( gui widgets ) positioning? ( gui ) printsupport? ( gui widgets ) sensors? ( gui ) serialport? ( gui ) sql? ( widgets ) svg? ( gui widgets ) testlib? ( gui widgets ) webchannel? ( network ) webengine? ( network widgets? ( webchannel ) ) webkit? ( gui network printsupport widgets ) websockets? ( network ) widgets? ( gui ) xmlpatterns? ( network ) (dependency required by "media-video/openshot-2.2.0::media-kit" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "openshot" [argument]) Please. I've read manuals but I cannot understand what to do.

I am trying to upgrade a Gentoo installation from end 2018 to the current version (March 2020). I am following the instructions given here . I have a host installation which contains an up-to-date (March 2020) Gentoo system, and from there I have mounted the old installation under

. I am trying to upgrade using the command: emerge --ask --verbose --verbose-conflicts --update --deep --newuse --root= --config-root= @world --backtrack=20000 This has produced several conflicts between already installed packages and packages that would be installed by the update. I resolved these by removing the old package and trying to update again with the command above. My plan is to install the removed packages again after the update has run successfully. This strategy has worked for many conflicts but now I have reached a conflict I cannot resolve. Here is the information from

--update ...

: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: dev-python/cffi:0 (dev-python/cffi-1.11.4:0/1.11.4::gentoo, installed) USE="-doc -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6" pulled in by >=dev-python/cffi-1.8:0/1.11.4=[python_targets_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),python_targets_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_8(-)] required by (dev-python/cryptography-2.8-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-idna -libressl -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 (-pypy3) (-python3_7) (-python3_8)" ^^^^^^^^^^ >=dev-python/cffi-1.1:0/1.11.4=[python_targets_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),python_targets_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-)] required by (dev-python/bcrypt-3.1.6:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 (-python3_7)" ^^^^^^^^^^ dev-python/cffi:0/1.11.4=[python_targets_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-)] required by (dev-python/pyzmq-16.0.2:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="(-doc) -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6 (-python3_7)" ^^^^^^^^^^ (dev-python/cffi-1.13.2:0/1.13.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="-doc -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 (-python3_7) (-python3_8)" pulled in by >=dev-python/cffi-1.1:0/1.13.2=[python_targets_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),python_targets_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-)] required by (dev-python/bcrypt-3.1.6:0/0::gentoo, installed in '/systemrescuecd/customcd/files/') USE="-test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 (-python3_7)" ^^^^^^^^^^ dev-python/cffi:0/1.13.2=[python_targets_python2_7(-),python_targets_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-)] required by (dev-python/pyzmq-16.0.2:0/0::gentoo, installed in '/systemrescuecd/customcd/files/') USE="(-doc) -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 (-python3_7)" If I interpret this information correctly, at least two different versions of package

-python/cffi

would be installed: e.g. version

.13.2

is pulled by package

-python/bcrypt

, and version

.11.4

is already installed. So my plan was to remove package

-python/cffi

first and then try

--update ...

again. So I did emerge --ask --root= --config-root= -C dev-python/cffi but emerge reports that the package is not installed, which puzzles me. If I then try

--update ...

I get again the information that one version of the package is already installed. So, is the package installed or is it not? And how to resolve this conflict? Or in case the package information is corrupt, is there a way to repair it?

I have a system whose sound is currently pulseaudio-{dis,en}abled, and I'm trying to remove pulseaudio. I first ran a emerge --update --newuse --deep @world and that worked fine. Then I added "-pulseaudio" to the USE variable in /etc/portage/make.conf. Currently, localhost /etc/portage # grep -ir 'pulse' * make.conf:USE="acl alsa apparmor bash-completion berkdb bindist blas bzip2 cairo cjk crypt curl cxx dbus dga doc dri examples ftp gd gif gmp gtk gnome gnuplot gsl gtk gzip icu introspection java jpeg lapck latex mmap modules mp3 mp4 mpeg ncurses offensive ogg openal opengl orc pcre pdf perl php png posix postgres postscript python readline sasl sdl smp sockets sound source spell sqlite ssl static-libs subversion systemd threads truetype udev unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis webkit webp wifi xattr xinerama xml xscreensaver xvid zip zlib X Xaw3d -consolekit -kde -kerberos -ldap -nss -plasma -qt3support -qt4 -qt5 -pulseaudio" Great, but now when I run the above rebuild world command again, nothing gets rebuilt. And some stuff does actually depend directly on pulseaudio still, so --depclean won't remove it: localhost /etc/portage # equery d pulseaudio * These packages depend on pulseaudio: app-emulation/qemu-4.0.0-r50 (pulseaudio ? media-sound/pulseaudio) gnome-base/gnome-control-center-3.30.3-r1 (>=media-sound/pulseaudio-2.0[glib]) gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-3.30.2-r1 (>=media-sound/pulseaudio-2[glib]) ... (lots of others) portaudio is not explicitly selected: localhost /etc/portage # grep pulseaudio /var/lib/portage/world returns no output. What am I doing wrong here? How do I get that dependency to go away? emerge --info at pastebin .

It's been months since I've updated my Gentoo system. And, as you can imagine, this means there's a lot of packages (and USE changes) I need to go over. My system is "amd64" (multilib), but I have a lot of manually keyworded packages from "~amd64". Anyway, in this update, I keep seeing "ABI_X86" USE flags. What is this? This is new. There's nothing in "eselect news list" about it. I found this topic: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-953900-start-0.html . That seemed to show how to use it, but, are there any "real" docs for this? What does it do? What am I *supposed* to set "ABI_X86" to? I have a multilib system. I assume I want "64", but then what are "32" and "x32"? I'm confused at what I need to do here. Emerge is yelling a lot about slot conflicts, and they seem to be related to "ABI_X86" (I forget the errors exactly, but I remember one was zlib). So, is there any "official" docs about what ABI_X86 is and how to use it? From the thread I linked, I found this page: http://kicherer.org/joomla/index.php/en/blog/liste/29-transition-of-emul-packages-to-true-multilib , but I want to know what I'm doing before I go keyword a bunch of stuff and edit my make.conf. P.S. I have most of the "app-emulation/emul-linux-x86" packages (the ones I seemed to need at the time) in my "package.keywords" file.

I'm trying to update all my packages, so I ran: emerge -aUDU --with-bdeps=y --verbose-conflicts @world and I found a few package conflicts. Interestingly enough though, is that it has scheduled two different versions of the dev-lang/perl package to install: dev-lang/perl:0 (dev-lang/perl-5.22.1:0/5.22::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by (virtual/perl-IO-1.350.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by (virtual/perl-version-0.990.900-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by (virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.560.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by (virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.12.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by (virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.40.100_rc:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by (virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.280.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by (virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-2.150.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by (virtual/perl-Module-Metadata-1.0.26:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by (virtual/perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta-1.441.400-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by (virtual/perl-JSON-PP-2.273.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ (dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by (virtual/perl-Getopt-Long-2.420.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by (virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.670.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.20.2* required by (virtual/perl-Storable-2.490.100-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.20.2* required by (virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280.217-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by (virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.330.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by (virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.65.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by (virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Manifest-1.630.0-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^ ^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by (virtual/perl-Perl-OSType-1.7.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) I've unmerged each of the packages that are using either versions of dev-lang/perl as a dependency (at least those that were installed and listed as causing conflicts), and I've tried masking either versions in /etc/portage/package.mask/perl by doing: >dev-lang/perl-5.20.2 or <=dev-lang/perl-5.22.1 But the conflicts remain. Do I have to mask each of the packages that depend on one of the versions, or is there another way to handle this conflict?

doing emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps y --keep-going @world takes a whole lot of time and often fails. Is there a way to print a list of all upgrade-able packages in a Gentoo system?