Without USE=-fam I run into this when adding packages to a naked stage3 in profile default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop: ================================================================== * Error: circular dependencies: (dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2, ebuild scheduled for merge) depends on (dev-util/pkgconfig-0.26, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime) (dev-libs/glib-2.28.8, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime) (virtual/fam-0, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime) (app-admin/gamin-0.1.10, ebuild scheduled for merge) (runtime) (dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2, ebuild scheduled for merge) (runtime) ================================================================== I'd pick an assignee if I knew whom.
This comes from targets/desktop/make.default I will assign this to base-system. I remember this problem as well. I am not sure if removing 'fam' from desktop profiles is desirable. I think portage should handle this kind of problems more efficiently.
The solution is to make libgamin stop depending on pkg-config, usually involves something along these lines: - export FOOBAR_LIBS and FOOBAR_CFLAGS to make it detect packages without pkg-config - ship the pkg.m4 for stuff like eautoreconf from SRC_URI so this bug belongs to the libgamin maintainer.
you'd get the dep regardless of USE flag defaults in the profile, so that really doesnt matter
I thought USE=fam had been removed years ago. It is only useful for fbsd arches afaik.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 374775 ***
