Hello,
I'm building a firewall on an old p3. It has Compact flash to ide, limited to 4 Gb so size is paramount. It's mostly ready. However upon a routine update, I get this error: Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: dev-lang/python:2.6 ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1', 'merge') pulled in by >=dev-lang/python-2.5 required by ('installed', '/', 'sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13', 'nomerge') dev-lang/python required by ('installed', '/', 'sys-apps/file-4.23', 'nomerge') <dev-lang/python-3.0 required by ('installed', '/', 'sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13', 'nomerge') (and 1 more) ('installed', '/', 'dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1', 'nomerge') pulled in by dev-lang/python[xml] required by ('installed', '/', 'app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.5', 'nomerge') (and 4 more) Explanation: New USE for 'dev-lang/python:2.6' are incorrectly set. In order to solve this, adjust USE to satisfy 'dev-lang/python[xml]'. OK fair enough, let's check python[xml] and see what's up... dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1 USE="berkdb ncurses readline ssl -build -doc -examples -gdbm* -ipv6* -sqlite -threads* -tk -ucs2 -wininst -xml*" 10,907 kB I'm ok rebuilding python with no xml support (???) but, I wonder about the -threads flag. Is this wise? also: CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" USE="-* -nls mmx hardened ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl pcre \ python readline zlib bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog" Suggestions on rebuilding python without xml or threads flags are most welcome. James