I had an old version of epsilon installed that caused emerging engage to crash during esmart compilation. After reemering epsilon, engage emerged fine, so media-libs/epsilon-0.3.0.20041016 should be added to the DEPEND list. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd encode escreen esd ethereal evo f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib irmc java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib"
engage doesnt use epsilon and you neglected to provide any errors so i really have no idea what you're refering to