On Fri, 26 May 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to remove any dependencies on x11 from my headless server. Thanks
> to
> someone's help last week, I learned how to configure libdb to not use java,
> which had dragged in the java IDE which dragged in x11.
>
> That worked wonderfully, and I removed x11 and thought I was done.
>
> As a sanity check, I checked to see what emerge world would do and was
> surprised:
>
>  # emerge -Duv --pretend --tree world
>
>   [ebuild  N    ] x11-terms/xterm-207  -Xaw3d -doc -toolbar +truetype -unicode
>   0  kB
>   [nomerge      ]  sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.6
>   [nomerge      ]   app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r3
>   [ebuild  N    ]    virtual/x11-6.8  0 kB
>   [ebuild  N    ]     x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7  -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts
>   -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6
>   -minimal
>   -mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk -sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts
>   (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB
>   [ebuild  N    ]      x11-base/opengl-update-3.0.0  0 kB
>   [ebuild  N    ]      x11-apps/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r3  0 kB
>
> How can I find out what is requiring x11-terms/xterm-207?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>


What are your use flags from /etc/make.conf and /usr/portage/package.use?
You have opengl as an enabled flag, for example, and that would pull in
xorg if something reacts to it (as libsdl does on my system).
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