Here is the emerge –info output before I begin the long update cycle.

Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
Last Sync: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:47:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
app-shells/bash:     3.1_p17
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.6
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 acl acpi..."
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

The USE variable has been severely truncated just because it was overly long and mostly unhelpful. make.conf attached just to show that I really didn’t have anything in USE.

# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
RSYNC="http://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/"
FEATURES="parallel-fetch"
USE="acpi -X -gtk -gtk2 -gnome -firefox usb -ipv6 -oss -apm -spell -kde -qt -qt3 -qt4 -arts"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"