app-arch/rpm-4.4.1.ebuild does not depend on net-misc/neon, but if neon isn't installed the compilation of rpm fails with: rpmdav.c:12:27: neon/ne_alloc.h: No such file or directory rpmdav.c:13:26: neon/ne_auth.h: No such file or directory rpmdav.c:14:27: neon/ne_basic.h: No such file or directory rpmdav.c:15:27: neon/ne_dates.h: No such file or directory rpmdav.c:16:27: neon/ne_locks.h: No such file or directory rpmdav.c:17:27: neon/ne_props.h: No such file or directory rpmdav.c:18:29: neon/ne_request.h: No such file or directory rpmdav.c:19:28: neon/ne_socket.h: No such file or directory rpmdav.c:20:28: neon/ne_string.h: No such file or directory rpmdav.c:21:27: neon/ne_utils.h: No such file or directory After installing neon, rpm compiles successfully. Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16.18-xen i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16.18-xen i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collinsion-protect distlocks maketest sandbox sfperms strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 acl apache2 bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt cups encode expat foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm imlib isdnlog jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl symlink sysfs tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS
fixed in 4.4.1-r1