This is my first bug report for gentoo, so please correct whatever you need to in this post. Whenever emerging cedega-5.2.3 on my amd64 system I encounter the following problem : Calculating dependencies... done! !!! Error: circular dependencies: ebuild / app-emulation/cedega-5.2.3 merge depends on ebuild / dev-python/pygtk-2.8.6 merge (medium) ebuild / dev-python/pygtk-2.8.6 merge depends on ebuild / dev-python/pycairo-1.0.2 merge (hard) ebuild / dev-python/pycairo-1.0.2 merge depends on ebuild / dev-python/pygtk-2.8.6 merge (hard) After trying to unmask the packages I then ran into the same exact problem: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! Error: circular dependencies: ebuild / dev-python/pygtk-2.10.1 merge depends on ebuild / dev-python/pycairo-1.0.2 merge (hard) ebuild / app-emulation/cedega-5.2.3 merge depends on ebuild / dev-python/pygtk-2.10.1 merge (medium) ebuild / dev-python/pycairo-1.0.2 merge depends on ebuild / dev-python/pygtk-2.10.1 merge (hard) For further information on my package.keywords, package.unmask, and package.mask you can read this forums post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3640030.html#3640030 The problem is quickly solved by doing as Hagar said in the post: USE="-gtk" emerge --oneshot pycairo emerge --oneshot pygtk pycairo emerge cedega --This worked great for me. Raistlin Majere
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149475 ***