> I must be missing something. I went and downloaded the patch, patched > /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py, created and edited > /etc/portage/package.use to my preference (according to the syntax > given in the bug-page) but emerge --info won't give me the output I > want. Is there something else I should do in order for it to work? > /etc/portage/package.use is attached to see if you can find something > wrong with it. I began with a _very_ simple config =) Hmm... I had to do a "emerge --info -v" for the information to show. Still doesn't show in verbose-mode when listing packages to emerge: $ emerge licq -vp These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-im/licq-1.2.7 +ssl -socks5 -qt -kde +ncurses It should show "qt" instead of "-qt" given my config, shouldn't it? Thanks again, Patrick Börjesson -- Public key id: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at search.keyserver.net[:11371]