After install I found no linking to media-libs/libcue in /usr/lib64/cmus/ip/cue.so and it was still being installed without media-libs/libcue present.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=7677b6cfdbdc981a7e2f0c90df1392b4125fdbd8 commit 7677b6cfdbdc981a7e2f0c90df1392b4125fdbd8 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-02-09 20:08:05 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-02-09 20:11:27 +0000 media-sound/cmus: Drop USE cue Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/700122 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.88, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> media-sound/cmus/cmus-2.8.0.ebuild | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------- media-sound/cmus/cmus-9999.ebuild | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------- media-sound/cmus/metadata.xml | 1 - 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)