Without net-libs/libproxy installed emerge media-video/totem fails (USE="youtube" enabled by default): make[5]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2/work/totem-2.32.0/src/plugins/youtube' CC libyoutube_la-totem-youtube.lo /usr/bin/intltool-merge ../../../po youtube.totem-plugin.in youtube.totem-plugin -d -u -c ../../../po/.intltool-merge-cache Found cached translation database Merging translations into youtube.totem-plugin. CCLD libyoutube.la /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lproxy collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[5]: *** [libyoutube.la] Error 1 With USE="-youtube" emerge succeeds
Maybe this is caused by some problem with .la files installed on your system and wrongly requiring libproxy :-/
Thanks for the pointer you are absolutely right. A revdep-rebuild fixed it - I have got spoilt by portage-2.2! Sorry for the noise.