[ebuild N ] media-libs/libvorbis-1.3.2 USE="-static-libs" 971 kB [ebuild N ] media-sound/audacious-2.4.1 USE="nls session sse2 (-altivec) -chardet" 1,364 kB [ebuild N ] media-plugins/audacious-plugins-2.4.1 USE="alsa flac mp3 nls sse2 -aac -adplug (-aqua) -bs2b -cdda -cue -ffmpeg -fluidsynth -gnome -ipv6 (-jack) -lame -lirc -midi -mtp -oss -pulseaudio -scrobbler -sdl -sid -sndfile -vorbis -wavpack" 3,341 kB Here above you can see -vorbis USE flag and still pulls in libvorbis. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge audacious
It is a FLAC dependency, see the ebuild. If that is confusing I can take the vorbis USE-flag out entirely and have it be controlled by USE=flac, but a case can be made that that is confusing as well. Only winning move might be not to play?