I recently upgraded to media-libs/libexif-0.5.10 and got the following error when trying to use imagemagick: palmer:/> mogrify mogrify: error while loading shared libraries: libexif.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory rebuilding media-libs/imagemagick resolved this, but I guess libexif should be added as an dependency? It's not essential for imagemagick to work, but imagemagick uses it if it is present on the system. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. palmer:/> emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r7 (default-1.0, gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.2.5-r8) ============================================================== === System uname: 2.4.21 i686 Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5800 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 /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/" 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="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 apm avi crypt cups encode libg++ mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv berkdb esd gdbm gif gnome-libs gpm gtk imlib java libwww motif oggvorbis pam python readline sdl snmp ssl svga tcpd -3dnow alsa apache2 -arts bonobo cdr curses dga dvd emacs ethereal evo fbcon gnome gtk2 gtkhtml guile jpeg -kde lcms -lirc -mikmod -moznoxft mysql nas -nls odbc -opengl oss pcmcia pda perl pic plotutils png pnp -qt -qtmt samba -slang smooth tcltk tetex tiff trusted usb vim-with-x xml X zlib" COMPILER="" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="ccache digest sandbox strict"
we don't want to have a fully featured programm every time sometimes we need a small system (server) possible solutions: use flags