Heads up chances are you will want to add f77, objc, gcj to your default USE flags for all profiles if you still want a bloated gcc by default. This changes behavior from yesteryear where everything was built by default. The basic motivation for this change can be found in here http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49284 Current IUSE flags look like. "X bootstrap build f77 gcj hardened java multilib nls objc static uclibc" -- Ned Ludd Gentoo Linux Developer