parrot is using bad dependencies. The only dependencies should be icu (if building against ICU), perl (DEPEND only), and automake (DEPEND only). See the README link in the URL for more information. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge parrot Actual Results: Depends on python-2.4*, gpu, gdbm, ncurses, readline Expected Results: Only depends on dev-lang/perl-5*, automake, and icu (IUSE).
Created attachment 167122 [details] Current & Fixed ebuild The attached ebuild properly installs the current 0.7.1 release. The mirrors do not have this file, so the URL will have to change (s/http/mirror/). This ebuild also rectifies the dependencies according to the parrot README.
1.7.0 has minimized deps. Closing.