: jmglov@jglover; emerge -vp dev-util/kcachegrind These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] dev-util/kcachegrind-0.4.1 -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal +xinerama 0 kB : jmglov@jglover; sudo emerge dev-util/kcachegrind [...] configure: error: The important program mcopidl was not found! Please check whether you installed aRts correctly. !!! ERROR: dev-util/kcachegrind-0.4.1 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 154, Exitcode 1 !!! died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure
Looks like there is no way to disable arts using a ./configure flag, so maybe arts should just be added to the DEPEND line.
I don't know where you have this old ebuilds from, but kcachegrind is part of kdesdk and dev-util/kcachegrind removed from the gentoo.org portage tree.