Both david and alan suggested global icu use flag. Specifically On Thu, Feb 25 2016, David Haller wrote:
> Hello, > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, allan gottlieb wrote: > [..] >>dev-libs/libxml2:2 >> >> (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.2-r4:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled >> in by >> >> dev-libs/libxml2:2[!icu?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?] >> required by (dev-qt/qtwebkit-4.8.6-r1:4/4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for >> merge) >> ^^^^^ > [..] >> (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.2-r4:2/2::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >> dev-libs/libxml2:=[icu] required by >> (www-client/chromium-48.0.2564.109:0/0::gentoo, installed) >> ^^^ > > Have you tried building with 'icu' use-flag for libxml2, the gstreamer > stuff and qtwebkit? Try e.g. > > USE="icu" emerge --pretend net-im/skype > > HTH, > -dnh Bingo. When used with alan's list for abi_x86_32 (plus my small addendum) portage is happy. Thank you both allan