I recently made a new install and after the first steps of the installation I gave 'emerge kde-meta' thinking that it would give me a system with kde ready to run. However x server wasn't installed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge kde-meta in a fresh install
nope, KDE can work without local X server, might be using remote one yes, you *really* have to install X.org by yourself
Sorry didn't know that!