If I want to install monodevelop I have to install also seamonkey, also if the seamonkey USE flag is off. I think it use xulrunner. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # emerge monodevelop -tvp Actual Results: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-util/monodevelop-0.15 USE="java -aspnet -aspnetedit -boo -firefox -seamonkey -subversion" 3,307 kB [ebuild N ] dev-dotnet/ikvm-0.34.0.2 1,336 kB [ebuild N ] dev-dotnet/nant-0.85 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-dotnet/gtksourceview-sharp-0.10-r1 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-dotnet/gecko-sharp-0.11-r1 0 kB [ebuild N ] www-client/seamonkey-1.1.6 USE="crypt gnome java -debug -ipv6 -ldap -mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc -moznomail -moznopango -moznoroaming -postgres -xforms -xinerama -xprint" 34,591 kB Expected Results: The same but without the seamonkey dependence xoen@ormone ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.21-suspend2-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-suspend2-r5 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-32 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LINGUAS="it en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aac aalib acpi alsa amd64 asf avahi avi bash-completion beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt dbus dga directfb dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd evo exif fam fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl iconv ieee1394 ipod isdnlog jabber java jpeg lcms libnotify lm_sensors mad matroska midi mikmod mime ming mmx mmxext mng mono mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3support quicktime rar readline reflection sdl session spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vorbis wmf xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nv nvidia vesa vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Not monodevelop; it's dev-dotnet/gecko-sharp. You can install mozilla-firefox first if you don't want seamonkey. NOTABUG.