Right after bootstrapping (from stage 1) and emerging xfree I emerged Gnome. My USE flags have: `X gtk gnome -qt -kde'. I don't know how qt and arts should be required for gnome. Portage claims they are. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt cups encode gif gpm jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime sdl slang spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb readline tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis opengl X gtk gnome -qt -kde -alsa -java -motif" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
I apologize. This was my mistake. I forgot to put `-arts' (and maybe others) in my USE flags. Please close this "bug".
closing then.