With USE="-xmms" portage dosn't pull in xmms but mplayer still requires libxmms.so.1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge unmerge xmms 2. USE="-xmms" emerge mplayer 3. Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -O3 -march=k8" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O3 -march=k8" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt curl dvd encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libvisual libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad motif mp3 mpeg multilib ncurses network nls ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl softmmu speex spell sqlite ssl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xine xml xml2 xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
USE=-xmms emerge mplayer ldd /usr/bin/mplayer |grep xmms [no result] Looks like I'm missing a point somewhere
Please provide some more information, unable to reproduce.