livecd / # emerge ati-drivers Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5 USE="-bindist -gmp -test" [nomerge ] dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4 USE="berkdb gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl -bootstrap -build -doc -examples -nocxx -nothreads -tk -ucs2" [nomerge ] app-admin/python-updater-0.2 [nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.7 USE="-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" [nomerge ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p15-r1 USE="nls -afs -bashlogger -vanilla" [nomerge ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.6 USE="gpm unicode -bootstrap -build -debug -doc -minimal -nocxx -trace" [ebuild N ] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1-r5 USE="(-selinux)" [ebuild N ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.6 USE="gpm unicode -bootstrap -build -debug -doc -minimal -nocxx -trace" !!! Error: circular dependencies: ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-libs/ncurses-5.6', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1-r5', 'merge') (hard) ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1-r5', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-libs/ncurses-5.6', 'merge') (hard) !!! Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily !!! disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.