I had alsa installed, decided to remove it and go with kernel drivers. emerge -C everything alsa, then recompiled the apps that depended on it. Gaim would not compile, even with the -alsa use flag. Compile output attached shortly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gaim 2. 3.
Created attachment 8924 [details] emerge info
Created attachment 8926 [details] compile output
you still have libraries linked to alsa ... `ldd /usr/lib/*` and re-emerge anything that is linked against the missing alsa