This ebuild is from the java-overlay. Is it just a bad ebuild or can I fix this? I tried disabling the nsplugin USE flag with the same result.
# emerge icedtea6 Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2 USE="nsplugin -cacao -debug -doc -examples -javascript -pulseaudio -shark -zero" * Error: circular dependencies: ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2', 'merge') depends on ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2', 'merge') (hard) * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies. - Grant