As you can confirm on my build.log it requires dbus-glib. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.unmerge dbus-glib 2.emerge librsvg-2.16.1 Expected Results: It should required on the ebuild the dbus-glib
Created attachment 114198 [details] build.log
*** Bug 171991 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 163284 ***
librsvg does not need dbus or dbus-glib. Something you had built on your system was linked against dbus-glib, and librsvg tried to link against that. When you remove a basic system-lib like dbus-glib, you need to run a full revdep-rebuild before you can install almost anything.