khopesh ~ # emerge -uavDN world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating world dependencies -
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-apps/hal-0.5.8.1" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-apps/hal-0.5.9 (masked by: package.mask)
# Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> (20 Mar 2007)
# ZOMG.. what am I doing...
- sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.6" [ebuild])
!!! Problem resolving dependencies for kde-base/kcachegrind
!!! Depgraph creation failed.
khopesh ~ # grep -R 'sys-apps/hal' /usr/portage/profiles/
/usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults:hal sys-apps/hal
/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:sys-apps/hal:dell - Adds support for Dell laptop smbios via libsmbios
/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:sys-apps/hal:disk-partition - Add support for partition editing via libparted
/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:sys-apps/hal:dmi - Adds support for DMI (Desktop Management Interface)
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc32/dev/gcc-4.1.1/package.mask:sys-apps/hal
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc32/2006.1/package.mask:sys-apps/hal
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.1/2.4/package.mask:sys-apps/hal
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/alpha/no-nptl/2.4/package.mask:sys-apps/hal
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4/package.mask:# requires sys-apps/hal
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4/package.mask:# Needs sys-apps/hal
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4/package.mask:sys-apps/hal
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/ChangeLog: Package.mask >=sys-auth/pam_usb-0.4.0 because it needs sys-apps/hal.
/usr/portage/profiles/hardened/x86/package.mask:sys-apps/hal
/usr/portage/profiles/default-bsd/ChangeLog: p.use.mask sys-apps/hal disk-partition dell since deps are not keyworded
/usr/portage/profiles/ChangeLog: Add disk-partition and mactel useflags for sys-apps/hal for supporting
/usr/portage/profiles/ChangeLog: Add dell useflag for sys-apps/hal for Dell support via libsmbios
khopesh ~ # grep -R 'sys-apps/hal' /etc/portage/
/etc/portage/package.use:sys-apps/hal -crypt
khopesh ~ # ls -l /etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 2007-05-14 12:42 /etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop