I have a partial installation of KDE (no meta-package): 17:03:27 aikiage:~ # qpkg -I -v -g kde-base kde-base/kde-env-3-r3 * kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r8 * kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.1 * kde-base/kdeprint-3.4.0 * kde-base/kdebase-data-3.4.0 * kde-base/kcminit-3.4.0 * kde-base/kcontrol-3.4.0 * Emerging of kscope failed at linking because libkateinterfaces was not found since I did not have kate installed and ebuild does not want kate. Workaround is to emerge kate and then re-emerge kscope. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge kscope when KDE installation is not from a metapackage (ie. kate is not automatically installed). Actual Results: linker failed. (I will not remove kate and do the linkin again just to produce the texts :-) ) Expected Results: Build without a problem 17:04:40 aikiage:~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2100+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 6 2005, 20:33:22)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d/ /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage/" USE="x86 3dnow X acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib cdr crypt cscope ctype cups curl dba dbm doc emacs emboss encode esd fam flatfile font-server foomaticdb freetype ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gnuplot gpm graphviz gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib inifile iodbc ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mime mmx motif mozilla moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nethack odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perforce perl png posix python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang sockets solid spell ssl svg svga sysfs tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xemacs xml xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
right, thanks :)