version 1.0.8, which is in portage, seems to have fixed that tetex-dependency

media-fonts/ec-fonts-mftraced/Manifest

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-DIST ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.8.tar.gz 8581 RMD160 2a342747a368fb4477d92c59eb678c51245a3b64 SHA1 6080627136a284ea0173e35198a8751bd3d9e854 SHA256 3cabc999968220c128a574286eb7d2ec620f49c28dfc2ed147d5b894b3db3d20
-EBUILD ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.8-r1.ebuild 1180 RMD160 118f11c166a79dab79aefa12007c5a4961ccdd4f SHA1 8d0a23f4af952badaddf08e6911601dc9dc9e5ee SHA256 c1cb1a5e1fc61b512f532e91df606b77e616cc829aa94e26c697f2521c9fed91

media-fonts/ec-fonts-mftraced/ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.8-r1.ebuild

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-# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-fonts/ec-fonts-mftraced/ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.8.ebuild,v 1.9 2007/01/10 19:45:42 peper Exp $
-
-DESCRIPTION="EC Fonts for Lilypond"
-SRC_URI="http://lilypond.org/download/fonts/${P}.tar.gz"
-HOMEPAGE="http://lilypond.org/"
-LICENSE="public-domain"
-
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="x86 sparc ~ppc amd64 ia64 alpha"
-IUSE=""
-
-RDEPEND=">=dev-scheme/guile-1.6.4
-	virtual/ghostscript
-	virtual/latex-base
-	>=dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r1"
-
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	>=sys-devel/make-3.80
-	>=app-text/mftrace-1.0.27
-	>=media-gfx/potrace-1.5"
-
-src_unpack() {
-	unpack ${A} || die "unpack failed"
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	addwrite /dev/stderr
-	addwrite /var/cache/fonts
-	addwrite /usr/share/texmf
-	addwrite /root/.PfaEdit
-
-	# no need for econf.. this isn't an autoconf-generated configure
-	./configure
-	make all builddir=${S} prefix=${D}/usr/
-}
-
-src_install () {
-	addwrite /dev/stderr
-	addwrite /var/cache/fonts
-	addwrite /usr/share/texmf
-	addwrite /root/.PfaEdit
-
-	make install builddir=${S} prefix=${D}/usr/
-	mv ${D}/usr/share/doc/{${PN},${P}}
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	texhash
-}