As can be seen from merging x11-libs/vte by ebuild, it does not require any X11 libraries. And it should not, since it's a GTK library which should run just fine on other backends such as Wayland without notion of X11.
[master d448ac5] x11-libs/vte: x11-libs are not needed anymore (#588928 by Cedric Sodhi) 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)