Had this, or similar, problem.
Created symlink libgnutls.so.13 to libgnutls.so, emerged CUPS. Emerge gimp-print then went without a hitch.

This had me going in circles until I read this. Thank you!!

The USE flags I added were nptl and nptlonly (my earlier post was incorrect - I DID have both l's in nptlonly). I have since removed these flags from make.conf, due to the fact that I then received the gcc error.

Thank you.

When I add nptl and nptonly USE flags to make.conf, glibc-2.4 then fails with:

configure: error:
*** These critical programs are missing or too old: gcc
*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.

!!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.4 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1557: Called dyn_compile ...

moocha,

Thanks a bunch! I never would have got that.
I reset the Cisco router and the DSL modem, and things worked great.

moocha,

Did you mean I should execute 'netstat -at' while the 'hang' is occurring?

If so, here is the output:

bash-2.05b# netstat -at
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 localhost:734 ...

Here's the output:

bash-2.05b# netstat -at
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State

tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 localhost:734 *:* LISTEN

It does download. It just hangs when "Updating pci.ids.." The file is there ...

I get this for output:

bash-2.05b# emerge pciutils
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/pciutils-2.1.11-r3 to /
>>> md5 files ;-) pciutils-2.1.11-r4.ebuild
>>> md5 files ;-) pciutils-2.1.11-r1.ebuild
>>> md5 files ;-) pciutils-2.1.11-r3.ebuild
>>> md5 files ;-) ChangeLog ...