On Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:27:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> Untarring the latest stage-3 onto /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/var and /mnt/
> gentoo/usr/local gets me started. Then I chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash,
> and that works too. Then I leave the profile at the default vanilla
> amd64 and emerge-webrsync. So far so good. Then when I try emerge
> -uaDvN @world I get a circular dependency involving elt-patches and
> xz-utils. No amount of unsetting of USE flags makes any difference. Nor
> does --excluding one of them, because portage just refuses to do that.

Try omitting -D and -N to reduce the number of packages being rebuilt. If
that doesn't help, post the output here.


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