... because it installs the usbutils.pc file in $(datadir)/pkgconfig instead of $(libdir)/pkgconfig as in previous versions (see http://github.com/gregkh/usbutils/commits/master/Makefile.am). And since the ebuild sets datadir to /usr/share/misc it lands in /usr/share/misc/pkgconfig where it doesn't get picked up by pkg-config and thus pkg-config can't find the usbutils package, breaking udev and every other package searching for usbutils via pkg-config.
my solution to this: (plus rev-bump of course) --- /var/repositories/portage/sys-apps/usbutils/usbutils-0.86.ebuild 2009-10-01 05:37:34.000000000 +0200 +++ usbutils-0.86-r1.ebuild 2009-10-01 08:34:50.000000000 +0200 @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ newsbin update-usbids.sh update-usbids || die "update-usbids failed" dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README + mv "${D}"/usr/share/{misc/pkgconfig,} + use network-cron || return 0 exeinto /etc/cron.monthly newexe "${FILESDIR}"/usbutils.cron update-usbids || die
fixed a different way and added 0.86-r1 ... thanks for pointing this out
