x11-apps/xmessage is almost definitely redundant - it was used by winelauncher script that was removed a few years ago. There's also x11-libs/libXmu which seems redundant too, which quite likely is redundant too, but I don't have a proof other than configure not checking for it. Also, due to the silly part of AC_PATH_XTRA macro, it is possible, that one of {libSM,libICE,libXt} (dependencies of libXmu) might still be used, even though wine doesn't explicitly check for those libs.
The xmessage dependency was already removed from all wine ebuilds a year ago (bug #431140) You are correct about libXmu, it's not needed since wine-0.9.27 AC_PATH_XTRA is silly, and unfortunately, it does result in winex11 linking with libSM and libICE. + 01 Sep 2013; Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org> wine-1.2.3.ebuild, + wine-1.3.28.ebuild, wine-1.4.ebuild, wine-1.4.1.ebuild, wine-1.5.0.ebuild, + wine-1.5.1.ebuild, wine-1.5.2.ebuild, wine-1.5.3.ebuild, wine-1.5.4.ebuild, + wine-1.5.5.ebuild, wine-1.5.6.ebuild, wine-1.5.7.ebuild, wine-1.5.8.ebuild, + wine-1.5.9.ebuild, wine-1.5.10-r1.ebuild, wine-1.5.11-r1.ebuild, + wine-1.5.12-r1.ebuild, wine-1.5.13-r1.ebuild, wine-1.5.14-r1.ebuild, + wine-1.5.15-r2.ebuild, wine-1.5.16-r1.ebuild, wine-1.5.17.ebuild, + wine-1.5.18.ebuild, wine-1.5.19.ebuild, wine-1.5.20.ebuild, + wine-1.5.21.ebuild, wine-1.5.22.ebuild, wine-1.5.23-r1.ebuild, + wine-1.5.24.ebuild, wine-1.5.25.ebuild, wine-1.5.26.ebuild, + wine-1.5.27.ebuild, wine-1.5.28.ebuild, wine-1.5.29.ebuild, + wine-1.5.30.ebuild, wine-1.5.31.ebuild, wine-1.6.ebuild, wine-1.7.0.ebuild, + wine-9999.ebuild: + Do not pull in corefonts when USE=truetype; users who need the original + corefonts instead of Wine's version can use winetricks (bug #481122, thanks + to Luke-Jr). Do not depend on libXmu (not needed), but do depend on libSM and + libICE (pulled in due to AC_PATH_XTRA silliness) (bug #483252, thanks to + Rafał Mużyło).
OK, I wonder where I was still seeing that xmessage. However, perhaps instead of dependency on unused libs (if they are really unused), we could come up with an automagic fix ?
(In reply to Rafał Mużyło from comment #2) > However, perhaps instead of dependency on unused libs (if they are really > unused), we could come up with an automagic fix ? Please talk with upstream about that :)
Not as much as I wanted to, but http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/bb50d6fd9512a9a05306c56112bbcdc6de6c8d65.
