diff -ur inkscape.orig/inkscape-0.48.2.ebuild inkscape/inkscape-0.48.2.ebuild
--- inkscape.orig/inkscape-0.48.2.ebuild	2011-11-16 01:12:36.080999943 +0800
+++ inkscape/inkscape-0.48.2.ebuild	2011-11-18 22:39:49.030954154 +0800
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-gfx/inkscape/inkscape-0.48.2.ebuild,v 1.10 2011/10/27 06:31:27 tetromino Exp $
 
 EAPI=4
-inherit eutils flag-o-matic autotools gnome2
+PYTHON_DEPEND="*::3.2"
+PYTHON_USE_WITH=xml
+inherit eutils flag-o-matic autotools gnome2 python
 
 MY_P="${P/_/}"
 S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
@@ -40,7 +42,6 @@
 	x11-libs/libXft
 	>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.7:2
 	>=x11-libs/pango-1.4.0
-	|| ( dev-lang/python[xml] dev-python/pyxml )
 	gnome? ( >=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.0 )
 	lcms? ( media-libs/lcms:0 )
 	spell? (
@@ -68,6 +69,8 @@
 	>=dev-util/intltool-0.29"
 
 pkg_setup() {
+	python_set_active_version 2
+	python_pkg_setup
 
 	G2CONF="${G2CONF} --without-perl"
 	G2CONF="${G2CONF} --enable-poppler-cairo"
@@ -95,3 +98,11 @@
 	append-flags -fno-strict-aliasing
 	gnome2_src_configure
 }
+
+pkg_postint() {
+	python_mod_optimize
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	python_mod_cleanup
+}