--- pym/portage.py.orig	2004-08-05 13:24:41.000000000 +0200
+++ pym/portage.py	2004-08-15 07:04:55.954353680 +0200
@@ -3932,7 +3932,7 @@
 				if mydep!=None:
 					tmp=(len(mydep)>=1)
 					if deplist[mypos][0]=="!":
-						#tmp=not tmp
+						tmp=not tmp
 						# This is ad-hoc code. We should rewrite this later.. (See #52377)
 						# The reason is that portage uses fakedb when --update option now.
 						# So portage considers that a block package doesn't exist even if it exists.
@@ -3940,7 +3940,7 @@
 						# ==== start
 						# emerge checks if it's block or not, so we can always set tmp=False.
 						# but it's not clean..
-						tmp=False
+						#tmp=False
 						# ==== end
 					deplist[mypos]=tmp
 				else: