It is required by kde-apps/cantor-16.12.3[julia] that is scheduled for stabilisation.
julia 0.5.0 would need the following (R)DEPENDs as well: =dev-libs/openspecfun-0.5.1 ~amd64 [1] =sci-libs/blas-reference-20161223 ~amd64 =sci-libs/openlibm-0.5.4 ~amd64 =dev-libs/double-conversion-2.0.1 ~amd64 =sys-devel/llvm-3.9.1-r1 ~amd64 =virtual/blas-3.7 ~amd64 [1] will bump that now. As a stop-gap solution I would suggest to simply stable-mask the julia use-flag for cantor.
Thanks, stable-mask is not a problem.
This is a horribly bad idea, but I guess that it'll be hard to avoid ... (I don't consider julia sane enough to be stable, especially as version bumps are very ... very tedious)
There is one dependence of julia which does not build, see bug #613576 (sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1)
(In reply to Jérôme Borme from comment #4) I meant bug #586582