$ emerge HTML-Mason superuser access is required... adding --pretend to options. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] dev-perl/HTML-Mason-1.36 USE="-doc -modperl" [nomerge ] dev-perl/Exception-Class-1.23 USE="test" [nomerge ] dev-perl/Devel-StackTrace-1.15 [nomerge ] dev-perl/module-build-0.28.08 USE="test" [ebuild N ] dev-perl/extutils-parsexs-2.18 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/version-0.72.03 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.19 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/module-build-0.28.08 USE="test" !!! Error: circular dependencies: ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-perl/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.19', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-perl/module-build-0.28.08', 'merge') (hard) ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-perl/extutils-parsexs-2.18', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-perl/module-build-0.28.08', 'merge') (hard) ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-perl/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.19', 'merge') (hard) ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-perl/module-build-0.28.08', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-perl/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.19', 'merge') (medium-soft) ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-perl/extutils-parsexs-2.18', 'merge') (medium-soft) ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-perl/version-0.72.03', 'merge') (hard) ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-perl/version-0.72.03', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-perl/module-build-0.28.08', 'merge') (hard) !!! Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily !!! disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies. Portage 2.1.2.12 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2007.0/server, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:47:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 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: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/pam.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-akv" FEATURES="buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors1.netvisao.pt/gentoo http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl apache2 bash-completion bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 isdnlog mailwrapper midi mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl postgres ppds pppd python readline reflection ruby session snmp sparc spl ssl tcpd test truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xorg zlib" 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="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev glint mach64 mga r128 radeon sunbw2 suncg14 suncg3 suncg6 sunffb sunleo tdfx v4l voodoo" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 185762 ***