The ebuild for app-text/acroread-8.1.3 has a hard dependeny to xulrunner-bin on amd64. For x86, both dependencies are ORed: <snip> !minimal? ( || ( net-libs/xulrunner net-libs/xulrunner-bin www-client/mozilla-firefox www-client/seamonkey www-client/seamonkey-bin ) ) ) </snip> From my very limited experience i'd say this is also possible for amd64. I tried the xulrunner dependency ORed with xulrunner-bin as a local overlay, the xulrunner-bin dependency went away as expected, and acroread comes up without any problems. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. equery depends www-client/seamonkey-bin 2. equery depends www-client/xulrunner-bin 3. Actual Results: # equery depends www-client/xulrunner [ Searching for packages depending on net-libs/xulrunner... ] app-text/acroread-8.1.3 (x86 & !minimal? net-libs/xulrunner) Expected Results: # equery depends www-client/xulrunner [ Searching for packages depending on net-libs/xulrunner... ] app-text/acroread-8.1.3 (amd64 & !minimal? net-libs/xulrunner) (x86&!minimal? net-libs/xulrunner) I'm running unstable xulrunner-1.9 because of some quirks in combination with eclipse-sdk (Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede). The acroread ebuild does not depend on a specific xulrunner version. Portage 2.1.4.5 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23.16 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23.16 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ Timestamp of tree: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -msse3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="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="en_US.utf-8" LINGUAS="en en_GB de" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://toolbox.de.db.com/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa amd64 arts bash-completion berkdb cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd fam firefox flac gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal ldap log4j mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pda pdf pic png ppds pppd qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sametime sdl session smp spell spl ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype unicode vorbis xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This issue is related to Bug 235661, same xulrunner-bin dependency for net-www/netscape-flash. The bug has been marked a copy of Bug 234542, which it is not.
If you are on 64bit this is on purpose since acroread is 32bit it also needs a 32bit libgtkembedmoz.so in order to work as expected. And currently seamonkey-bin and xulrunner-bin are the only -bin package which provide the 32bit version of libgtkembedmoz.so on a 64bit platform. If you don't want acroread to pull in xulrunner at all feel free to use the minimal USE flag. xulrunner is used to display the Adobe Reader Help for example. Previously the help was launched when you started acroread for the first time and you got a grey window without a "working" libgtkembedmoz.so but this has been changed upstream in more recent versions.
*** Bug 281775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
