Looks like gnome-themes need dev-perl/XML-Simple: make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/work/gnome-themes-2.16.3/icon-themes/Crux/16x16' Making install in actions make[4]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/work/gnome-themes-2.16.3/icon-themes/Crux/16x16/actions' make[5]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/work/gnome-themes-2.16.3/icon-themes/Crux/16x16/actions' make[5]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. test -z "/usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions" || mkdir -p -- "/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'document-open.png' '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions/document-open.png' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'go-bottom.png' '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions/go-bottom.png' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'go-first.png' '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions/go-first.png' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'go-last.png' '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions/go-last.png' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'go-previous.png' '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions/go-previous.png' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'go-up.png' '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions/go-up.png' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'go-down.png' '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions/go-down.png' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'go-home.png' '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions/go-home.png' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'go-next.png' '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions/go-next.png' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'go-top.png' '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions/go-top.png' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'view-refresh.png' '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16/actions/view-refresh.png' (cd /var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/image//usr/share/icons/Crux/16x16 && /usr/libexec/icon-name-mapping -c actions) Can't locate XML/Simple.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/libexec/icon-name-mapping line 11. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/libexec/icon-name-mapping line 11. make[5]: *** [install-data-local] Error 2 make[5]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/work/gnome-themes-2.16.3/icon-themes/Crux/16x16/actions' make[4]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/work/gnome-themes-2.16.3/icon-themes/Crux/16x16/actions' make[3]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/work/gnome-themes-2.16.3/icon-themes/Crux/16x16' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/work/gnome-themes-2.16.3/icon-themes/Crux' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3/work/gnome-themes-2.16.3/icon-themes' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.16.3 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1615: Called dyn_install ebuild.sh, line 1061: Called qa_call 'src_install' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_install ebuild.sh, line 1305: Called gnome2_src_install gnome2.eclass, line 85: Called die
See explanation in bug 166830 Basically gnome-themes depends on icon-naming-utils and that already depends on XML-Simple just fine. Bug 152198 has some details why you might have a borked XML-Simple, with some indications that there are still problems (in which case might want to reopen that one)
*** Bug 266136 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 318965 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 325045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***