These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-arch/cpio-2.10-r1 [2.9-r2] USE="-nls" 0 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/lcms-1.19 USE="zlib -jpeg -python -tiff" 0 kB Can you tell what the problem is here? If you had lcms USE enabled, but lcms not installed, and now you add the dependency, you _still_ won't get poppler with lcms without rebuilding it explicitly…
+*poppler-0.12.4-r1 (16 Mar 2010) + + 16 Mar 2010; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> + +poppler-0.12.4-r1.ebuild: + Revision bump wrt #309739 to get poppler linked against lcms.