mbp13x17 babaei # emerge -avt app-text/stardict These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-text/stardict-3.0.1-r3 USE="espeak festival spell -debug -gnome -gucharmap (-pronounce) -qqwry" 0 kB Stardict entry in package.use: app-text/stardict espeak festival -gucharmap pronounce spell Also there is no ebuild anymore for WyabdcRealPeopleTTS. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73657 It says: > Well stardict-3.0.1-r1 built with pronounce USE flag to installs this package. Is this affected by: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348644 http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly > () Parentheses around a USE flag indicate that it is currently masked by your profile. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="pronounce" emerge -avt app-text/stardict 2. 3. Actual Results: emerge ignores pronounce use flag Expected Results: emerge must use this use flag and install WyabdcRealPeopleTTS as a result. Portage 2.2.2 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.2-r2, 2.6.38.2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.38.2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.1.8 Portage Tree: /usr/portage Portage HEAD: bebf6c19e5de639d031179af38a5565303be8838 /usr/portage/.git/refs/heads/funtoo.org ccache version 3.1.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1.8-r2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.7.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.32 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA Q3AEULA Nero-EULA-US skype-eula AdobeFlash-10.1 PUEL vmware dlj-1.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -pipe -msse4.1 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -pipe -msse4.1 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages mini-manifest news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en_US fa_IR en fa" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="git://github.com/funtoo/portage-mini-2010.git" SYNC_USER="root" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alac alsa amd64 amr aspell avahi bash-completion battery berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cleartype cli consolekit corefonts cracklib crypt custom-cflags custom-optimization cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode exif fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fontforge fortran gdbm gdu gif glitz gpm graphicsmagick gtk gtk2 hddtemp hdri hfs ibam iconv id3tag ieee1394 imagemagick ipod ipv6 irda isight jbig joystick jpeg jpeg2k lame lcms ldap libnotify lirc lm_sensors lzma lzo mad matroska md5sum mesa midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg openal openexr opengl openmp optimized-qmake pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pulseaudio python q32 qt3support qt4 rar raw readline rle samba scanner sdl session smp spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4.1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff timidity truetype udev ukit unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wavpack webkit wifi wmf wxwidgets x264 xcb xfce xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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 cgi cgid 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" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US fa_IR en fa" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa v4l fbdev" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, SYNC_UMASK
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 352260 ***
Thank you Sir. I didn't knew theres a use.masking mechanism in Gentoo. Commenting 'app-text/stardict pronounce' in /usr/portage/profiles/base/package.use.mask solved the problem.
