On a fresh install (emerge gnome immediately after emerge system) gnome-base fails to compile because bzip2 is not installed. I built gnome 2.10. Another, less critical problem is that when you start gnome the first time it complains that xscreensaver doesn't exist. Perhaps gnome should depend on it too. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gnome 2. 3. Actual Results: gnome-base fails to build Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2. 6.11-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 10 2005, 18:18:11)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wl,--as-needed" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/l ib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wl,--as-needed" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://cudlug .cudenver.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" 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="x86 X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd emacs emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib java jpeg libg++ libw ww lirc mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss p am pdflib perl png python quicktime readline real samba sdl spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd te tex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
gnome-base isn't the name of a package. bzip2 should be brough it by whatever needs it(its a gnome-vfs dep for example). xscreensaver isn't required by gnome and it even gives a friendly message telling you what package to install if you want screensavers. Also we don't support -Wl,--as-needed. reopen if you can give the exact error/package and reproduce with supported cflags.
