On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:23:03 +1200
Andrew Sands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Anybody on the list running 'gentoo' who might be able to give a heads up as
> to why with the most recent portage update my non-X boxes have started to
> download a swag of x11 lib files OR if this doesn't ring any bells, could a
> suggestion slightly better than "google for it....." be put forward as to
> what command line utility I use to either find out what package \ ebuild has
> decided to require X.
> 
> As an aside make.conf USE includes "-X".
> 
> TIA
> 
> Andrew
> 


If they are downloading something you don't want then you forgot to check what 
portage was about to do with the --pretend (-p) flag.

You can trace depedencies better with --tree (-t)

eg

emerge -uDpvt world

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