When I do an "emerge --depclean", this happens: >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: dev-libs/libgcrypt selected: 1.5.4-r100 protected: none omitted: 1.6.2 media-libs/tiff selected: 3.9.7-r1 protected: none omitted: 4.0.3-r6 All selected packages: =dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.5.4-r100 =media-libs/tiff-3.9.7-r1 However, if these versions are removed, they trigger the "preserved libs" feature on vmware-workstation, and indeed vmware-workstation needs these older libs. The ebuild however, does not place an RDEPEND on media-libs/tiff at all, and it places a wrong dep on libgcrypt:0 instead of libgcrypt:11. It should depend in these instead: dev-libs/libgcrypt:11 media-libs/tiff:3
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 493018 ***