I think guppi should have <gnome-extra/gal-1 as an RDEPEND. guppi looks for libgal.so.23. This is provided by gnome-extra/gal-0.24, but not the gal-1.xx versions. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge guppi without gal-0.xx 2.exec guppi-gnumeric 3. Actual Results: Cannot load shared library libgal.so.23 Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="oss slang perl python -aalib -apm -arts -avi -berkdb -crypt -cups -encode -esd -foomaticdb -guile -imlib -java -kde -libg++ -libwww -mad -mikmod -motif -nas -nls -pam -pdflib -qt -sdl -svga -tcpd x86 3dnow acpi alsa bonobo gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 jpeg maildir mmx mozilla mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl png quicktime readline spell ssl tcltk tetex truetype usb X xml2 xmms xv zlib"
thanks for your report. the gal dep has been added to the guppi ebuilds.