gdm won't compile without esound, because libesd is required during compiling. Anyway, the ebuild doesn't care about it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -C esound 2. emerge gdm (it will fail) 3. emerge esound gdm cerri@cerrito cerri $ emerge info Portage 2.0.48_pre6 (, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gaming-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1200 MHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://212.219.56.162/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://194.8 3.57.2/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://194.83.57.3/sites/www.ibiblio.org/ge ntoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.flashnet.it/mirror /12/sunsite.unc.edu/Gentoo ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/sunsite http://ibiblio.o rg/pub/Linux/ftp.edisontel.com/pub/Sunsite_Mirror http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch /ftp/mirror/gentoo ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gentoo http://www.ibibli o.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu " CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi g /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/home/portdir" DISTDIR="/home/portdir/distfiles" PKGDIR="/home/portdir/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="3dnow arts mikmod gtkhtml alsa aalib tcltk guile sdl perl esd qt mozilla x8 6 oss acpi apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups directfb dga encode gdbm gif gpm gtk imlib java jpeg gnome libg++ libwww miknod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvo rbis opengl pam pdflib png python quicktime radeon readline slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd truetype usb X xml2 xmms xv zlib -kde" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mfpmath=sse -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -falign-functions=4 -fforce-addr" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mfpmath=sse -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -mss e -falign-functions=4 -fforce-addr" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
gdm doesn't need esound directly. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21371 ***