qingy has a gpm use flag, but even with it enabled it does not depend on the gpm package. # emerge qingy -vp These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/qingy-0.8.0 USE="gpm -crypto_libgcrypt -crypto_openssl -emacs -pam -static" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/DirectFB-0.9.18 crypto_openssl? ( >=dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e ) crypto_libgcrypt? ( >=dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.2.1 ) emacs? ( virtual/emacs ) pam? ( >=sys-libs/pam-0.75-r11 ) >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r6 || ( ( x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXScrnSaver ) virtual/x11 )" DEPEND="${RDEPEND} >=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.12.0"
Imho, this is correct. The gpm USE flag is there so that qingy can stop it before entering DirectFB mode, and start it again when shutting it down. It does not use gpm in any way, so, if gpm is not even installed, the better... Let me know what do you think about this...
Ah, looks like I completely misinterpreted things. Thanks, and sorry for the trouble.
Your doubt was completely lecit :-) Thanks for your care...