On Thursday 19 April 2007 15:13:39 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Hello Graham Murray,
>
> > > If not, the behavior you see is normal. Just add
> > > "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" to the world file.
> >
> > Shouldn't gentoo-sources be part of system?
>
> No, because you may not want to use gentoo-sources. system contains only
> packages for which there is no choice, and there are plenty of kernels to
> choose from.

While gentoo-sources isn't part of system virtual/linux-sources is a 
dependency of a quite a few packages in the tree (mostly kernel modules). And 
on all profiles in default-linux gentoo-sources is the default provider for 
that. The thing is that it is only a DEPEND and not an RDEPEND. So in 
addition to what others have told you you might want to take a look 
at --with-bdeps in `man emerge`.

-- 
Bo Andresen