When i've tried to install docutils (via emerge docutils) emerge will crash because setuptools are not installed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. make sure that you've unmerged setuptools and docutils 2. try to emerge docutils Actual Results: Error complaining about lack of docutils Expected Results: It should install docutils and required dependency (setuptools in this case)
Created attachment 199113 [details] Log from emerge
Emm i've made a "typo" there, actualy result should be: Error complaining about lack of setuptools.
# grep ^DEPEND= dev-python/docutils/docutils-0.4-r3.ebuild DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools"
I got the same result from grep on my local machine as you, but still for some reason docutils is not installing setuptools.
Maybe your dev-python/setuptools is broken or it's installed for different Python version. Reinstall dev-python/setuptools. If you recently switched Python version, run python-updater.