emerge -upvtDN world, after hal and dbus have been removed will emerge hal first because it doesnt depend on dbus Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -C dbus hal 2. emerge -uDN world Actual Results: attempts to install hal before dbus, which hal complains about running configure. checking for DBUS... configure: error: Package requirements (dbus-1 >= 0.61) were not met: No package 'dbus-1' found Expected Results: dbus should have been emerged before hal Portage 2.1.3_rc9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.6-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r1 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:30:06 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-g -pipe -march=nocona -ggdb -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-g -pipe -march=nocona -ggdb -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://10.1.0.4/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa amd64 bogofilter bzip2 cairo cracklib crypt cups d dbus dri eds encode fam firefox foomaticdb fortran gaim glitz gmp gnome gnutls gtk gtk2 hal imap java jce kqemu libedit libnotify linuxthreads-tls mime mmap mmx mmxext mng motif moznocompose moznoirc moznomail msn mudflap nautilus ncurses net nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc objc++ objc-gc ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl png posix python rar readline sdl session sharedmem smp sockets sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg symlink tagwriting theora threads truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis widescreen wifi wxwindows xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xosd xscreensaver xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard synaptics aiptek joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Sure it does depend on dbus. Run revdep-rebuild *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 157201 ***