Here is the output of emerge -pu world: [root] ~ # emerge -pu world These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating world dependencies ...done! !!! Error: circular dependencies: ebuild / app-text/ghostscript-7.05.3-r1 depends on ebuild / net-print/cups-1.1.15-r2 ebuild / net-print/cups-1.1.15-r2 depends on ebuild / app-text/ghostscript-7.05.3-r1 I guess ghostscript shouldn't depend on cups...
dup of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5280 you were 2 bugs too late my friend
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5280 ***