without USE dbus, avahi-ui is not built and vinagre fails to configure because it doesn't find the corresponding pkgconfig file.
you mean USE="gtk" right ? Which version of avahi do you have ? also could you provide config.log and emerge --info ?
I do mean USE=dbus (for avahi). Specifially, my situation was USE="gtk -dbus". The version of avahi I'm referring to is 0.6.24. To reproduce this, try `USE=-dbus ebuild <avahi ebuild> install` and `find </var/tmp/portage/<avahi-image-dir> -name avahi-ui.pc`. You shouldn't find anything (in contrast to what happens with USE=dbus). pipping@treibsand ~ $ paludis --info paludis 0.34.0 Paludis build information: Compiler: CXX: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 4.3.2 CXXFLAGS: -O2 -pipe -march=native -msse4.1 LDFLAGS: -Wl,-O1 DATE: 2009-01-23T22:47:09+0100 Libraries: C++ Library: GNU libstdc++ 20080827 Reduced Privs: reduced_uid: 1000 reduced_uid->name: pipping reduced_uid->dir: /home/pipping reduced_gid: 1000 reduced_gid->name: pipping Paths: DATADIR: /usr/share LIBDIR: /usr/lib64 LIBEXECDIR: /usr/libexec SYSCONFDIR: /etc PYTHONINSTALLDIR: RUBYINSTALLDIR: /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux Environment: Format: paludis Config dir: /etc/paludis World file: /var/db/pkg/world Repository installed-virtuals: format: installed_virtuals root: / Repository virtuals: format: virtuals Repository gentoo: format: ebuild location: /usr/portage append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true binary_destination: false binary_keywords: binary_uri_prefix: builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /usr/portage/metadata/cache distdir: /usr/portage/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names newsdir: /usr/portage/metadata/news profile_eapi_when_unspecified: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib securitydir: /usr/portage/metadata/glsa setsdir: /usr/portage/sets sync: rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/ sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/empty Repository installed: format: vdb location: /var/db/pkg builddir: /var/tmp/paludis names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names provides_cache: /var/cache/paludis/provides root: / Repository emacs: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/emacs append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true binary_destination: false binary_keywords: binary_uri_prefix: builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /usr/portage/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/emacs/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/paludis/repositories/emacs/.cache/names newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/emacs/metadata/news profile_eapi_when_unspecified: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/emacs/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/emacs/sets sync: svn+http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/emacs/emacs-overlay sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Repository gnome: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/gnome append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true binary_destination: false binary_keywords: binary_uri_prefix: builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /usr/portage/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/gnome/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/paludis/repositories/gnome/.cache/names newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/gnome/metadata/news profile_eapi_when_unspecified: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/gnome/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/gnome/sets sync: git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/gnome.git sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Repository paludis-overlay: format: ebuild location: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-overlay append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true binary_destination: false binary_keywords: binary_uri_prefix: builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /usr/portage/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-overlay/eclass ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional master_repository: gentoo names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/names newsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-overlay/metadata/news profile_eapi_when_unspecified: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib securitydir: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-overlay/metadata/glsa setsdir: /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-overlay/sets sync: git://git.pioto.org/paludis-overlay.git sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata No packages were specified on the command line, so detailed information is not available (Paludis can display detailed information for both installed and installable packages). PS: when i hit the problem, I was still using portage and not subscribed to the gnome overlay. All in all I suppose the above output doesn't help much.
Grokking through configure.ac and Makefile.ams, it looks like dbus _is_ a requirement for avahi-ui. Fixed in CVS.
*** Bug 259587 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in 0.5.2 as well.
