the USE defaults are a bit INSANE... We need to get rid of some of this crap... ./default-linux/x86/2005.0/make.defaults:USE="alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fo nts crypt cups eds emboss encode fortran foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis X xml2 xmms xv zlib" Examples include... WHY is "arts" turned on... There's absolutely no reason for it. AFAIK, you can even build KDE without it. Why are we turning "gnome" on... who says you want to pull in the damn desktop? "eds"... very very very specific Gnome app that most people don't want support for. If I remember correctly, this was added cause someone was too lazy to do the right work around in the ebuild. "gtk" and "gtk2", I thought we cleaned up this mess of just 1 USE flag. But seriously, why are these on? "kde", uh same reason and Gnome above... "ogg", "oggvorbis", "vorbis"... I thought we cleaned up this mess... "gstreamer"... again Gnome specific. "qt"... why? "cups"... who says I want printer support.. "foomaticdb" depends on cups.. "motif"... what a horrible terrible windowing toolkit that needs to just be rm -rf'd. "emboss" wow... what a very very crazy specific USE flag... Can we please clean up some of this trash? -- Doug Goldstein http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/