this comes after a fresh install of mpd on a fresh gentoo system /etc/init.d/mpd start * Caching service dependencies ... * Can't find service 'alsasound' needed by 'mpd'; continuing... [ ok ] alsasound * ERROR: Some services needed are missing. Run * './mpd broken' for a list of those * services. "mpd" was not started. so the mpd ebuild must depend on alsa-utils if the USE Flag alsa is set (reffering to Bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99969) i think it's easy to fix
Sorry for not responding here, this has already been fixed, see bug #126417. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126417 ***