The package's configure checks for aspell.h and libaspell. Therefore the dependency on virtual/aspell-dict should be changed to app-text/aspell (which will pull in at least one dictionary).
any aspell dictionary (virtual provider) depends on aspell (forced by aspell-dict eclass.
(In reply to comment #1) > any aspell dictionary (virtual provider) depends on aspell (forced by > aspell-dict eclass. Yes, but that doesn't make enchant's dependency right. ;) And it's not equivalent, because virtual/aspell-dict may pull in the english dictionary, even if the USER has explicitly deselected it in LINGUAS: $ LINGUAS=de USE=aspell emerge -p enchant These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-text/aspell-0.60.6-r2 USE="nls -examples" LINGUAS="de -af -be -bg -br -ca -cs -cy -da -el -en -eo -es -et -fi -fo -fr -ga -gl -he -hr -is -it -la -lt -nl -no -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -sl -sr -sv -uk -vi" [ebuild N ] app-dicts/aspell-de-0.60_pre20030222 [ebuild N ] app-dicts/aspell-en-6.0.0 [ebuild R ] app-text/enchant-1.6.0 USE="aspell*" Whereas aspell calculates its dependencies on dictionaries correctly: $ LINGUAS=de emerge -p aspell These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-text/aspell-0.60.6-r2 USE="nls -examples" LINGUAS="de -af -be -bg -br -ca -cs -cy -da -el -en -eo -es -et -fi -fo -fr -ga -gl -he -hr -is -it -la -lt -nl -no -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -sl -sr -sv -uk -vi" [ebuild N ] app-dicts/aspell-de-0.60_pre20030222
Fixed.
