ZiGGi <ziggiman_REMOVE_ME_hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've got my entire system up and running and is now installing misc
> applications. The current issue is connected to firefox. 'emerge
> --pretend mozilla-firefox' shows that it will install Firefox 1.0.8.
> Firefox have moved to 1.5.x a while ago. 'emerge sync' does not change
> anything. Why is it that emerge is trying to build an "old" version?
> Some "stable"/"unstable" issue?

Yes. Put this into your /etc/portage/package.keywords file:
#firefox
dev-libs/nss ~x86
www-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86

And yes, you might want to choose mozilla-firefox-bin if you don't want to
compile the *big* package.
Eggert