Don't know if it's a problem caused by a new version of Portage, but if you add "+" in front of a use flag it generates an error: root@Brick docs # USE="-guile +libgda" emerge -pv gnumeric USE flags should not start with a '+': +libgda These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] gnome-extra/libgda-1.0.1 -odbc -postgres -mysql -ldap -firebird -freetds -sqlite -mdb -oci8 -doc [ebuild N ] app-office/gnumeric-1.2.2 +libgda -gnomedb +python -bonobo Thanks to Kim Bay Smith for reporting
How weird, just received an e-mail about this one, fixed it, then received a bugreport from a different person. Is it full moon somewhere? :) Anyway, thanks. It's fixed now.