Comment 42 for bug 184225

Well after running in to the problem now with the box I been trying to update. came up with this work around and it seems to work but it is really yucky fix in my book.

first you have to mask the following packages and if they are installed uninstall them.

# =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1
# =x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga-1.4.7
# =x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.3
# =x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4

Then do the emerge vnc with the use=server. once that is done then update world and it will want do its thing. remove the blocked packages. Then do update world again. That was the yucky part, then you need to edit the vnc ebuild and change it from 1.3.0.0 to 1.4 and emerge world again and it should go though. This is a yucky work around but it works for now.

kinda sad that you have to downgrade to 1.3.0.0 then install vnc with the use=server option then do the updates then edit the ebuild, then do the updates some more. just a yucky work around.