[gentoo-user] Why does cyrus-sasl require courier-imap?

[Tanstaafl]

I switched to dovecot not too long ago, and I removed the authdaemond 
keyword from cyrus-sasl, but it still wants to pull in courier-imap.

I want to remove courier-imap completely, but I still may need postfix 
to be able to work as sasl client, which requires cyrus-sasl (since 
dovecot-sasl is server side only)...

So... am I stuck with keeping courier-imap around just so I can use 
cyrus-sasl?