emerge of sys-fs/e2fsprogs fails until sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs is installed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Don't have e2fsprogs-libs installed 2. Emerge e2fsprogs 3. Failure Actual Results: Failure Expected Results: successful emerge
Well, it does depend on it. You've probably done some creative masking.
Odd - I didn't noticed it depends via that variable. Nothing is masked, though. Did an install a couple weeks ago from stage3, went to do an "emerge -Du" last night and had this fail.
What version are you talking about ? Any >=1.41.3 has ~sys-libs/${PN}-libs-${PV} RDEPEND, before 1.41.0 there was no sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs.
You need to upgrade your Portage to an eapi2 Portage.