apparently libgnomecanvas-2.6.1.1 needs libxml2 but does not list it as a dependency. As a result, attempts to emerge libgnomecanvas-2.6.1.1 without first emerging libxml2 by hand fail with a configure error. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -C libxml2 2. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge libgnomecanvas (if you are using x86, I guess you could use '~x86' above; I don't have an x86 machine to test that on; the point is forcing the 2.6 version to be emerged, as opposed to the default 2.4) Actual Results: The configure script for libgnomecanvas fails complaining that 'libxml-2.0.0' cannot be found; please check that libxml2.pc is in PKG_CONFIG_PATH, etc, etc, etc. In summary, it complains libxml2 is not installed. Expected Results: The libgnomecanvas-2.6.1.1 ebuild (or some other ebuild that it depends on) should list libxml2 as a dependency so that one didn't have to emerge libxml2 by hand.
libgnomecanvas deps on libglade -> libglade deps on libxml2 you shouldnt just remove random libs from your system, that is your fault here. libgnomecanvas itself has no direct dependency on libxml2 (there is _no_ reference to it in the code).
