Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Try turning off USE="gtk" and turning on USE="headless-awt" for icedtea-bin.
Thanks. With a total of "-alsa -cups -gtk headless-awt -webstart", it reduces to --- cut here --- home01 ~ # emerge -pv jre These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-eselect/eselect-java-0.3.0::gentoo 14 KiB [ebuild N ] sys-apps/baselayout-java-0.1.0::gentoo 71 KiB [ebuild N ] dev-java/java-config-2.2.0-r3:2::gentoo USE="{-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 (-python3_5) (-python3_6)" 51 KiB [ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea-bin-3.4.0:8::gentoo USE="headless-awt -alsa -cups -doc -examples -gtk -multilib -nsplugin -pulseaudio (-selinux) -source -webstart" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 60397 KiB [ebuild N ] virtual/jdk-1.8.0-r3:1.8::gentoo 0 KiB [ebuild N ] virtual/jre-1.8.0-r1:1.8::gentoo 0 KiB Total: 6 packages (6 new), Size of downloads: 60532 KiB --- cut here --- This looks pretty reasonable. Ironically, in the meantime I found a better suitable package which doesn't need Java at all :-) Thanks anyway... -Matt