On Wed, Aug 24 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:

> In package.use I have
>
> dev-libs/glib introspection
>
> However emerge is removing it.
>
> emerge --ignore-default-opts -pv =dev-libs/glib-9999::gnome
>
> [ebuild R *] dev-libs/glib-9999 USE="static-libs -debug -doc -fam (-introspection) (-selinux) -test -xattr" 0 kB [1]
>
> Can someone tell me why it is being removed and how to prevent the
> removal?

It was removed by the profile. The fix is to add

dev-libs/glib -introspection

to

/etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask

allan