Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Unfortunately, the spurious xorg-x11-6.9 package just shows at the top
> of the tree:

> Calculating world dependencies... done!
> [blocks B     ] >=sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2 (is blocking
> sys-apps/pam-login-4.0.14)
> [blocks B     ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-1.6.0)

> Any other suggestions?

There is nothing spurious about it. You aren't reading closely enough to
see the '<=' (less than or equal to) in front of it. Maybe you want to
check out the "Blocked packages" section of the handbook [1]. Basically
it's saying that you need to uninstall your old xorg-x11 before you can
upgrade to the new, modular xorg-x11. Please also glance at the howto
for this upgrade [2].

Thanks,
Donnie

1.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap4
2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml