If USE=-crypt and app-crypt/gpgme is not installed then kde-base/kdepim tryes to build bundled gpgme and fails to do this. If USE=crypt then kde-base/kdepim depends on app-crypt/gpgme, so it does not even try to use bundled version of gpgme and all is OK. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.1.2.12 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:47:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -mfpmath=sse -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -mfpmath=sse -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/misc /usr/portage/local/const-portage /usr/portage/local/x4x-portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts blas blender-game bzip2 cairo cdr cli curl dbus djvu doc dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread emacs encode esd expat ffmpeg fftw firefox fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gmp gnome gnutls graphviz gstreamer gtk gtkhtml iconv imagemagick jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde leim libnotify mad midi mikmod mmap mmx mp3 mpi mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php plotutils png python quicktime readline ruby samba sdl seamonkey sox spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wmf x264 x86 xcomposite xine xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 radeon sis vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Fixed in CVS.