Having dev-lang/orc installed on system make pulseaudio linked to orc even if orc USE flags is disable 1. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 emerge -vt orc 2. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 USE=-orc emerge -vt pulseaudio $ ldd /usr/bin/pulseaudio | grep -F orc liborc-0.4.so.0 => /usr/lib64/liborc-0.4.so.0 (0x00007f7ed11da000) Attached a simple patch to ebuild, then $ ldd /usr/bin/pulseaudio | grep -Fc orc 0 Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 350014 [details, diff] pulseaudio-3.0-r1.ebuild.orc-link.patch
fixed in 4.99.4