>>> Emerging (2 of 4) x11-plugins/pidgin-latex-1.2.1 to / * pidgin-latex-1.2.1.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Creating Manifest for /usr/portage/x11-plugins/pidgin-latex * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking pidgin-latex-1.2.1.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] * * ERROR: x11-plugins/pidgin-latex-1.2.1 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called pkg_setup * pidgin-latex-1.2.1.ebuild, line 25: Called built_with_use 'pkg_setup' 'pkg_setup' * eutils.eclass, line 1729: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die) die "$PKG does not actually support the $1 USE flag!";; * The die message: * net-im/pidgin-2.4.0 does not actually support the gtk USE flag!
No idea where did you take your net-im/pidgin-2.4.0 ebuild from, but the one on official tree definitely does support gtk USE flag. http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/net-im/pidgin/pidgin-2.4.0.ebuild?rev=1.1&view=markup