| You can't emerge /anything/? That sounds pretty unlikely.

---- emerge evolution ----

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for libgtkhtml-3.0... Package bonobo-activation-2.0 was not found
in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `bonobo-activation-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'bonobo-activation-2.0', required by 'libbonobo', not found

configure: error: Library requirements (libgtkhtml-3.0) not met; consider
adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in
a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

!!! ERROR: net-mail/evolution-1.4.5 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 339, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed

---- emerge bonobo-activation ----

configure: checking for correct platform...
configure: error:
** ERROR **

bonobo-activation is deprecated in Gnome 2.4,
it's part of libbonobo now, please build the libbonobo module
instead

** ERROR **

!!! ERROR: gnome-base/bonobo-activation-2.2.4 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 339, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed

----- emerge gnome -----

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for gtk+-2.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.5.9 libgnomeui-2.0 libglade-2.0
bonobo-activation-2.0 libbonoboui-2.0 >= 2.1.1 ORBit-2.0 libglade-2.0
gnome-vfs-2.0 gnome-vfs-module-2.0 gconf-2.0 libnautilus... Package
bonobo-activation-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `bonobo-activation-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'bonobo-activation-2.0', required by 'libbonobo', not found

configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.5.9
libgnomeui-2.0 libglade-2.0 bonobo-activation-2.0 libbonoboui-2.0 >= 2.1.1
ORBit-2.0 libglade-2.0 gnome-vfs-2.0 gnome-vfs-module-2.0 gconf-2.0
libnautilus) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment
variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can
find them.

!!! ERROR: net-www/epiphany-1.0.7 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 339, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed