On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:01:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other 
> gnome-related flags. I left gtk in for the likes of gimp which 
> I do use.

GTK is not option for Gimp, so it doesn't use the gtk USE flag.

> Imagine my surprise when remerging openoffice wants to pull in 
> half of gnome again. I can understand it needs gtk, I do not 
> understand why it wants evolution-data-server, gconf and 
> gnome-panel. 

Remove eds from USE.

"emerge --tree --verbose openoffice" will help.


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