On 10:50 Sat 17 Dec     , Dale wrote:
> Jeff Grossman wrote:
> 
> >When I ran emerge -uaD today, I got the following output:
> >
> >These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> >
> >Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> >[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.16 [2.15]
> >[ebuild     U ] net-misc/curl-7.15.1 [7.15.0]
> >[ebuild  NS   ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r5
> >[ebuild  N    ] x11-apps/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r3
> >[ebuild  N    ] x11-base/opengl-update-2.2.1
> >[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3
> >[ebuild  N    ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6
> >[ebuild  N    ] virtual/x11-6.8
> >[ebuild  N    ] app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r3
> >[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.6
> >[ebuild  N    ] x11-terms/xterm-204
> >[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r3
> >[ebuild  N    ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r3
> >[ebuild     U ] net-print/cups-1.1.23-r4 [1.1.23-r1]
> >
> >
> >How do I find out why the x-11 programs are trying to be installed?  I 
> >am running just a server, so I have no X or X-11 or any gui type 
> >programs installed.  And, I don't want any gui type programs installed.

The culprit is cups, which changed some USE flags, pulling in xpfd &
openmotif.  See:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/148810

for details.

Bill Roberts