It would be nice if dev-java/icedtea6 could be built without having X installed, as it is apparently possible with sun-jdk. Reproducible: Always
Yeah but sun-jdk is binary package, but Sun is building it with X stuff too, you just don't have to use these parts when running it. Same with icedtea6/icedtea6-bin wrt runtime. Icedtea6 build system however doesn't AFAIK make X optional at build time, so we cannot adapt the ebuild to do that, and don't have the manpower and motivation to implement it ourselves, so try asking upstream, soryr.
Upstream bug created at http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=421
