The ebuild for emul-linux-x86-soundlibs ignores the USE flag settings in make.conf. I'm not sure if this is expected behavior. I set my make.conf to USE=" -arts ..." and emerge -av1 emul-linux-x86-soundlibs ignores this setting, returning Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20071125 USE="alsa arts* esd" 0 kB Which if the arts USE flag is turned on revdep-rebuild complains of a missing dep. Installing emul-linux-x86-qtlibs seems to fix the missing dep issue, but an ebuild ignoring make.conf settings seems like a big mistake to me. Setting /etc/portage/packages.use with =app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20071125 -arts, causes the expected behavior. Reproducible: Always nietzsche josh # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ " LINGUAS="en_US en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/musicbrainz /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amarok amd64 ao bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo ccache cddb cdinstall cdr cdrom cdrw cli console cracklib crypt css cups dbus dga directfb divx doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread dvdrw encode esd exif expat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gimp glitz gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hddtemp iconv imagemagick ipod isdnlog joystick jpeg jpeg2k libnotify lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmx modplug mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap musepack musicbrainz ncurses net nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp optimisememory oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime rar raw readline reflection session spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl svg tcpd theora threads tiff toolbar truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode usb visualization vorbis wxwindows xcomposite xine xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 nv nvidia vesa vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Has nothing to do with the ebuild, run `grep -Rni arts /etc/portage` and check the output, you are doing something wrong there. Anyway this flag needs to go to /dev/null. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 210661 ***
*** Bug 210736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
