when I try to emerge epiphany I get an error about dbus: checking for DEPENDENCIES... yes checking for DBUS... configure: error: Package requirements (dbus-glib-1 >= 0.35) were not met: No package 'dbus-glib-1' found However, if I run -v on the ebuild you see that -dbus is set and so it shouldn't try to compile with it. [ebuild N ] www-client/epiphany-2.14.1 USE="firefox python -dbus -debug -doc" 0 kB Portage 2.1_pre10-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/etc/portage/overlay /etc/portage/xgl-coffee" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa arts asf audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cli crypt cups curl divx4linux dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dxr3 eds emboss encode esd ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idea imlib isdnlog java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww live lzo mad matroska mikmod mjpeg mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png pppd python qt quicktime readline real reflection rtc sdl session sndfile speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd theora tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts v4l v4l2 vidix vorbis win32codecs wmf xanim xinerama xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** Bug 132929 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
dbus is no longer optional in epiphany upstream. We're exploring our options.
dbus is not optional anymore, thanks. in cvs.