Re: emerge command

Okay I rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/*  

I now run emerge gnome 

Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge gnome-base/gnome-2.0.1 to /
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Source unpacked.

>>> Install gnome-2.0.1 into /var/tmp/portage/gnome-2.0.1/image/
category gnome-base
strip:
>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/gnome-2.0.1/image/

>>> Merging gnome-base/gnome-2.0.1 to /

 * note that to change windowmanager to metacity do: 
 *  export WINDOW_MANAGER="/usr/bin/metacity"
 * of course this works for all other window managers as well
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> gnome-base/gnome-2.0.1 merged.
>>> Auto-cleaning packages ...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.


 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

I look in /var/tmp/portage and the gnome dir is recreated. 

This is really getting weird.