This was reported to me on #gentoo-dev a few minutes ago, by Blackb|rd. ./configure fails if dbus is not installed. In the econf call, we have this: --with-screen-driver=-a2 \ If dbus is not available, a2 is not in the list of known screen drivers, so it cannot be enabled or disabled. At this point, there is a hard build-time dependency on sys-apps/dbus, just for the configure script. It isn't an RDEPEND, because we never actually link against dbus libraries. The short-term fix is to add sys-apps/dbus to DEPEND. The long-term fix is to patch the build system and send the patch upstream.
I applied a patch from upstream that fixes this issue.
