The USE flag 'symlink' is not used at all. Might be a remnant form older times.
Thanks for the report! I pushed a fix.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1c48ce94e4b998234e046151d7e39171c1aa2b7d commit 1c48ce94e4b998234e046151d7e39171c1aa2b7d Author: Nicolas Bock <nicolasbock@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2017-11-20 12:21:09 +0000 Commit: Nicolas Bock <nicolasbock@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-11-20 12:22:39 +0000 mail-client/neomutt: Remove obsolete USE flag The USE flag 'symlink' is not used by the ebuild. Remove it. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/637174 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.13, Repoman-2.3.3 mail-client/neomutt/neomutt-20170714.ebuild | 3 +-- mail-client/neomutt/neomutt-20170912.ebuild | 3 +-- mail-client/neomutt/neomutt-20171006.ebuild | 3 +-- mail-client/neomutt/neomutt-20171013.ebuild | 3 +-- mail-client/neomutt/neomutt-20171027.ebuild | 3 +-- mail-client/neomutt/neomutt-9999.ebuild | 3 +-- 6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)