When compiling amule, the configure script complains about gdlib (media-libs/gd) missing. The build continues nonetheless, even though a warning appears about limited functionality regarding some icon or something working only in textmode. Anyway, isn't the ebuild supposed to consider media-libs/gd a dependency?
while gd is required for the "stats" USE flag, it should be optional for the regular frontend as well. The gd USE flag has been added to the amule ebuild in case you would like to take advantage of that extra icon stuff and still don't want stats enabled ;).
heh, got a little trigger happy and didn't click "resolve bug"