After reading a post here today I decided to investigate why I have several qt-4.4.2 packages on this workstation, when I don't have kde-4. It turns out that the SSL USE flag causes kopete-3.5.9 to pull in 14 qt-4.4.2 packages. This strikes me as somewhat odd.
For the moment I've specified kopete -ssl in portage.use and removed all the qt-4 packages. Does anyone here know why we have this dependency of a kde-3 package on qt-4? -- Rgds Peter

