If splitting gvim/kvim from vim was intended to keep vim X free, the ebuild is not working. I had emerged vim-6.1-r19 (and its prereq vim-core). When executing vim in an xterm as root, I would get "unable to open display :0,0" each time vim terminated. My default USE contains "X". When I did 'USE="-X" emerge vim', the same version of vim was emerged, but the error in behavior disappeared. Unable to reproduce, as the problem has been fixed. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge vim with "X" in USE variables 2. start an xterm (I use aterm) and su - 3.vim anything and quit Actual Results: GHo message "unable to open display :09,0" Expected Results: No such message (vim supposedly contains no X functionality).
the console version of vim will change the console's title if X is enabled in the USE vars.