localhost log # emerge sendmail Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE="ssl -ipv6 -mailwrapper -md5sum" [ebuild N ] mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r7 USE="-mbox (-selinux)" [ebuild N ] mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0 USE="ssl tcpd -ipv6 -ldap -mailwrapper -mbox -nis -sasl -sockets" [blocks B ] mail-mta/sendmail (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) [blocks B ] mail-mta/ssmtp (is blocking mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked localhost log # emerge -C sendmail --- Couldn't find 'sendmail' to unmerge. >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge localhost log # emerge -C ssmtp --- Couldn't find 'ssmtp' to unmerge. >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge localhost log #