chroot) localhost linux # emerge -av glib These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] dev-libs/glib-2.16.4 USE="fam -debug -doc -hardened (-selinux) -xattr" [ebuild N ] app-admin/gamin-0.1.9-r1 USE="python -debug" [ebuild N ] dev-libs/glib-2.16.4 USE="fam -debug -doc -hardened (-selinux) -xattr" * Error: circular dependencies: ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-libs/glib-2.16.4', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'app-admin/gamin-0.1.9-r1', 'merge') (hard) ('ebuild', '/', 'app-admin/gamin-0.1.9-r1', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-libs/glib-2.16.4', 'merge') (hard) * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies. Reproducible: Always
Please do NOT mis-use the Bugzilla product. It has a bold bright red warning: "Bugs related to ebuilds belong in 'Gentoo Linux'".
And while it's annoying, it's not a blocker. It's well known too. The workaround is to emerge glib first, with useflag -fam, emerge gamin and re-emerge glib.
Please take a bit more time a) searching e.g. forums.g.o and Bugzilla beforehand and b) writing your bug report. A bug title without any hint about the problem isn't polite. And no, blocking packages does not mean your problem justifies setting the severity field to blocker. As Rafał wrote, your workaround is USE="-fam" emerge -1 glibc ; emerge -1 glibc *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 217861 ***
