As I Said in the summary when i try to emerge kde-meta it failed because of circular dependencies. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge kde-meta Actual Results: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ..^H^H... done! [nomerge ] kde-base/kde-meta-4.3.5 USE="nls -accessibility (-aqua) (-kdeprefix)" [nomerge ] kde-base/kdeedu-meta-4.3.5 USE="(-aqua) (-kdeprefix)" [nomerge ] kde-base/kmplot-4.3.5 USE="handbook (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix)" [nomerge ] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r2 USE="accessibility cups dbus glib mng qt3support (-aqua) -debug -gtk -nas -nis -pch -raster -tiff -xinerama" [ebuild N ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE="X acl dbus pam perl png python ssl -avahi -gnutls -java -jpeg -kerberos -ldap -php -ppds -samba -slp -static -tiff -xinetd -zeroconf"LINGUAS="-de -en -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW" [ebuild N ] app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3 USE="abiword lcms png qt4 utils xpdf-headers -cairo -cjk -debug -doc -exceptions -jpeg -jpeg2k" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r2 USE="accessibility cups dbus glib mng qt3support (-aqua) -debug -gtk -nas -nis -pch -raster -tiff -xinerama" [ebuild N ] dev-util/cmake-2.6.4-r3 USE="qt4 -emacs -vim-syntax" * Error: circular dependencies: ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r2', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1', 'merge') (buildtime) ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-util/cmake-2.6.4-r3', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r2', 'merge') (buildtime) ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3', 'merge') (runtime) ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r2', 'merge') (buildtime) ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-util/cmake-2.6.4-r3', 'merge') (buildtime) * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies. Expected Results: KDE emerged Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6700_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo/ http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ http://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 kde mmx mng modules mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python qt qt3support qt4 readline reflection session spl sql sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd unicode webkit xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard virtualbox evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="virtualbox" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Emerge with USE="-cups" and enable it later on if you need it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 175808 ***
