Am 21.04.2015 um 03:14 schrieb Joseph: > I don't think grub is asking for it.
I know it does, because grub-0.97 is 32 bit only software, and the package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r14 compiles grub from the sources with dynamic linking. So it needs 32 bit dependencies (packages with USE="abi_x86_32") incl. sys-devel/gcc. If you don't want to have any abi_x86_32 dependencies being installed on your system you need to replace sys-boot/grub-0.97-r14 by sys-boot/grub-static-0.97-r12, because this package contains the grub binary with static linking. The binary of sys-boot/grub-static again is precompiled by the sys-boot/grub-0.97-r14 ebuild with USE="static". So sys-boot/grub-static doesn't need any 32 bit dependencies (packages with USE="abi_x86_32").
