without rspec emerging of uuidtools fails. Reproducible: Always
Please paste your 'emerge --info' output into a bugzilla comment to assist the maintainers.
alex@neon ruby-pg % sudo emerge -va uuidtools [ebuild N ] dev-ruby/uuidtools-1.0.7-r1 USE="-doc -test" 16 kB >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-ruby/uuidtools-1.0.7-r1 >>> Installing (1 of 1) dev-ruby/uuidtools-1.0.7-r1 >>> Jobs: 1 of 1 complete Load avg: 0.24, 0.22, 0.43 alex@neon ruby-pg % FEATURES="test" sudo emerge -va uuidtools [ebuild N ] dev-ruby/rspec-1.2.8 USE="-doc" 202 kB [ebuild N ] dev-ruby/rake-0.8.7 USE="-doc" 103 kB [ebuild R ] dev-ruby/uuidtools-1.0.7-r1 USE="test* -doc" 0 kB Dependencies look fine to me. Reopen if you have a log of a failed build.