emerge -va inkscape These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! Error: circular dependencies: ebuild / dev-python/pygtk-2.8.6 merge depends on ebuild / dev-python/pycairo-1.0.2 merge (hard) ebuild / dev-python/pycairo-1.0.2 merge depends on ebuild / dev-python/pygtk-2.8.6 merge (hard) ebuild / media-gfx/inkscape-0.44 merge depends on ebuild / app-office/dia-0.95.1 merge (hard) ebuild / app-office/dia-0.95.1 merge depends on ebuild / dev-python/pygtk-2.8.6 merge (hard)