User talk:Sam/Portage help/Circular dependencies

harfbuzz and freetype
USE=-* is wrong and unnecessary in every case.

Because freetype has very few dependencies, there is a much simpler solution in many, many cases on first install:

Nothing in a bare environment requires it.

One of the few things to force pull it in is pango which none of the freetype deps should be referencing.

--Grknight (talk) 20:12, 13 August 2021 (UTC)