if one tries to compile kdevelop-2.1.5 it will fail at the configure stage, unless kdelibs have been installed by hand beforehand. the same goes for arts, but then again arts is a dependency of kdelibs and should be automatically installed once kdelibs has been added to the dependency list of kdevelop. I am aware that there has already been a discussion around about removing loads of dependencies from kdevelop, so there were probably too many dependencies removed. BTW: One can remove arts safely AFTER compiling kdevelop, it will still work (or I have yet to encounter problems) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: try on a system without kdelibs! 1. emerge kdevelop Actual Results: an error message, complaining about missing kde libraries: checking for KDE... configure: error: in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix! ... !!! ERROR: dev-util/kdevelop-2.1.5 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 117, Exitcode 1 !!! died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure if kdelibs is installed, but arts isn't installed it will produce this message: configure: error: The important program mcopidl was not found! Please check whether you installed aRts correctly. ... !!! ERROR: dev-util/kdevelop-2.1.5 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 117, Exitcode 1 !!! died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure Expected Results: emerge required dependencies Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.24) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.24 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache nostrip sandbox" 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/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang snmp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_radeon"
kdevelop has kdebase and kdelibs as a dep.