I tried to emerge eel (version 2.8.2) using 2004.3 x86 profile but the build failed trying to link with libgnome-keyring.la. The eel ebuild (eel-2.8.2.ebuild) dos not specify that eel depends on the gnome-keyring package. Installing the gnome-keyring package solve the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge unmerge gnome-keyring 2.emerge eel 3.
eel has no direct dep on keyring, it's a dep of a dep and it should be there. You have most likely removed it yourself (no depclean is not safe to use).