emerge msys failing (Was: emerge qt failing)

[Allen Winter]

On Sunday 03 July 2011 8:40:11 AM Allen Winter wrote:
> I started from scratch using the git emerge repo.
> 
> When I run 'emerge qt' the build eventually fails with the message:
>  
> "emerge fatal error: install for qt not in timers"
> 
hmm... but now I'm getting 
"emerge fatal error: qmerge for msys not in timers"

what do these "foo not in timers" errors mean?