The sparc64-1.4 default profile for gentoo has the apm USE flag masked, yet it's default in the profile. This breaks gnome-applets-2.4 since it has a use for the apm flag, since it's impossible to get apmd running on sparc. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Workaround: USE="-apm" in /etc/make.conf
Removed apm from make.defaults Also adjusted default-sparc-1.4 profile