sys-apps/cpio should depend on virtual/glibc: ldd `which cpio` ****@portage # ldd `which cpio` libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4001f000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40034000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -evp sys-apps/cpio 2. ldd `which cpio` 3. Actual Results: ****@portage # emerge -evp sys-apps/cpio These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] sys-apps/cpio-2.5 Expected Results: Something like: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r1 +nls -pic -build -nptl [ebuild N ] sys-apps/cpio-2.5 Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test7-bk3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test7-bk3 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio. org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/new/tmp/" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/root/ebuilds" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline svga ggi tcltk java guile ruby X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis motif cdr dvd -xmms -3dnow -cups opengl gtk gtk2 -gnome alsa oss -qt -kde -esd -arts"
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