localhost / # emerge -av ffmpeg These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616 USE="X a52 aac amr encode ieee1394 imlib network ogg oss sdl theora truetype v4l vorbis x264 xvid zlib (-altivec) -debug -doc -mmx -test -threads" [nomerge ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.11-r2 USE="X aalib alsa dga directfb fbcon ggi libcaca nas opengl oss xinerama -arts -custom-cflags -esd -noaudio -nojoystick -novideo -svga -xv" [ebuild N ] dev-libs/DirectFB-0.9.25.1 USE="fbcon fusion gif jpeg mpeg png sdl sysfs truetype v4l v4l2 zlib -debug -mmx -sse" [ebuild N ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.11-r2 USE="X aalib alsa dga directfb fbcon ggi libcaca nas opengl oss xinerama -arts -custom-cflags -esd -noaudio -nojoystick -novideo -svga -xv" !!! Error: circular dependencies: ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-libs/DirectFB-0.9.25.1', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/libsdl-1.2.11-r2', 'merge') (hard) ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/libsdl-1.2.11-r2', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-libs/DirectFB-0.9.25.1', 'merge') (hard) !!! Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily !!! disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies. I has sync portage tree, i change the sync mirror and gentoo mirror, but problem persists. naturaly, the problem isn't in ffmpeg merger only, it's affected some packages of media-video, media-libs and others. I have three days to the problem. Reproducible: Always the problem is in 32bit chroot system.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 175808 ***