emerge -Davu emacs-updater
emacs-updater
* 5 packages to remerge:
app-emacs/autoconf-mode
app-emacs/po-mode
app-emacs/rst
dev-util/desktop-file-utils
sci-visualization/gnuplot

Remerge packages? [Yes/No] yes

Compiz-fusion actually worked on ancient tdm2 (with intel video drivers). But the thing has been crawling lately, time to clean it up.

emerge --unmerge compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported

Added this to [/etc/portage/package.keywords] on [mediacenter], to get FF3:

# === Unmask Firefox 3 ===
# MDM This list keeps getting longer...
www-client/mozilla-firefox
dev-libs/nspr
dev-libs/nss
net-libs/xulrunner
www-client/epiphany
dev-util/intltool
gnome-extra/yelp
dev-libs/glib
x11-libs/gtk+
media-libs/libcanberra
gnome-base/gail
# ======= end FF3 =======

You also need [xulrunner] USE flag in [/etc/make.conf].
[desktop] required an [emerge –unmerge gail].
All desktops are using FF 3.0.4 at this time.

…or you’ll end up killing wget, and be up the creek without a paddle…

emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs
emerge -C com_err ss
emerge -C e2fsprogs
emerge e2fsprogs

This is supposedly fixed already in newer versions of portage.

Warning from mplayer emerge:

You've enabled the 'gtk' use flag which will build
GMPlayer, which is no longer actively developed upstream
and is not supported by Gentoo.  There are alternatives
for a GUI frontend: smplayer, gnome-mplayer and kmplayer.

Note from x264 emerge:

Please note that this package now only installs
x264 libraries. In order to have the encoder,
please emerge media-video/x264-encoder.

Updated [package.use]:

# MDM gtk is deprecated as a front end, kill it...
# "Use smplayer, gnome-mplayer and kmplayer instead".
# smplayer needs [srt].
media-video/mplayer -gtk srt

Updated [package.keywords]:

# MDM Un-soft-mask VLC (and dependencies)
media-video/vlc
media-plugins/live
media-video/ffmpeg
media-libs/x264
media-libs/x264-encoder

Emerged:

emerge -Davu smplayer gnome-mplayer kmplayer

[x264-encoder] wasn’t ready to emerge, mplayer wants a different version than vlc. Holding off for now…