This one may actually be more complicated as well, since the vala eclass is driving the DEPEND I'm having issues with but Before: ~ % cat /var/db/pkg/games-board/iagno-3.22.0/DEPEND >=dev-libs/glib-2.40:2 >=gnome-base/librsvg-2.32.0:2 >=media-libs/libcanberra-0.26[gtk3] >=x11-libs/gtk+-3.15:3 || ( dev-lang/vala:0.34 dev-lang/vala:0.32 dev-lang/vala:0.30 dev-lang/vala:0.28 ) app-text/yelp-tools dev-libs/appstream-glib >=dev-util/intltool-0.50 sys-devel/gettext virtual/pkgconfig app-arch/xz-utils >=sys-apps/sed-4 dev-util/desktop-file-utils x11-misc/shared-mime-info After: ~ % cat /var/db/pkg/games-board/iagno-3.22.0/DEPEND >=dev-libs/glib-2.40:2 >=gnome-base/librsvg-2.32.0:2 >=media-libs/libcanberra-0.26[gtk3] >=x11-libs/gtk+-3.15:3 || ( dev-lang/vala:0.36 dev-lang/vala:0.34 dev-lang/vala:0.32 ) app-text/yelp-tools dev-libs/appstream-glib >=dev-util/intltool-0.50 sys-devel/gettext virtual/pkgconfig >=app-portage/elt-patches-20170422 app-arch/xz-utils >=sys-apps/sed-4 dev-util/desktop-file-utils x11-misc/shared-mime-info Also getting more packages I have to re-emerge to fix the issue ... I suspect this issue will crop up when a new version of vala is added as well.
Please explain the problem and then the solution in clear terms.