this is the same as a bug i filed yesterday [ #142681 ] . this time i found this in libmpeg2 , libdts, libdvdread, libmad , libpng, smpeg, fftw. (i checked only the newest version available, some of them were from flameeyes' overlay, but seems that they already got into portage). there are some more packages with this behavior, but don't remember them at the moment. what's wrong: look at bug #142681 (it's the same situation) solution add RDEPEND=${DEPEND} into the ebuild, or RDEPEND="" if package has no runtime deps. the RDEPEND needs to be defined.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142755 ***
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