portage-1.8.14 fails to read DEPEND string with more then one USE flag between (). In case it's invalid syntax, error should be reported (and ebuilds using it fixed). Example : dev-db/postgresql-7.2-r1 it has a line "java? ( >=virtual/jdk >=dev-java/ant-1.3 )" in it's DEPEND But portage fails to recognize this dependancy: uranus files # emerge -oep postgresql These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.2.20020112a to / [ebuild N ] sys-devel/gettext-0.11.1 to / [ebuild N ] sys-devel/libtool-1.4.1-r4 to / [ebuild N ] sys-devel/m4-1.4p to / [ebuild N ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.52d to / [ebuild N ] sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4 to / PS. Also I remember some ebuild didn't have a space between '?' and '(' and it didn;t work too.
This may not be the problem. Try upgrading to portage-1.8.16 and after merging it type rm /var/cache/edb/dep/*. If the problem goes away, it was something else. Post a follow-up here stating whether that solved the problem or not and I will follow-up if necessary.
works for me with a recent portage (1.8.19)
