after running the command emerge --update --newuse --deep -pv world with both ldap and sasl USE flags in /etc/make.conf Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="SASL LDAP" 2. emerge --update --newuse --deep -pv world 3. Actual Results: !!! Error: circular dependencies: ('ebuild', '/', 'net-nds/openldap-2.3.35-r1', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-r2', 'merge') (hard) ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-r2', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'net-nds/openldap-2.3.35-r1', 'merge') (hard) !!! Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily !!! disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies. Expected Results: 1. ldap should be compiled without sasl 2. sasl should be compiled without ldap 3. ldap should be re-compiled WITH sasl 4. sasl should be re-compiled WITH ldap I am able to resolve this dependency by installing from the original source packages and bypassing portage.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 32394 ***