NB: this bug is solved. I just want to share the problem and the solution I found. emerge -uNDp esound returned: [ebuild N ] media-sound/esound-0.2.38-r1 USE="alsa ipv6 tcpd -debug -doc" When i made an "emerge -uND world", esound compilation crashed because of a font issue. If you want to fix the problem, you need to remerge app-text/sgml-common trying to emerge esound
Created attachment 136895 [details] compilation error message
Sigh; misfiled, misresolved...
and dupe as a bonus... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 128952 ***