emerge --depclean spits out the following after removing libnfnetlink: * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the * packages that pulled them in. * * net-libs/libnfnetlink-1.0.0 pulled in by: * net-firewall/iptables-1.4.10 needs libnfnetlink.so.0 configure.ac: PKG_CHECK_MODULES([libnfnetlink], [libnfnetlink >= 1.0], [nfnetlink=1], [nfnetlink=0]) AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_LIBNFNETLINK], [test "$nfnetlink" = 1]) Makefile.am: if HAVE_LIBNFNETLINK SUBDIRS += utils endif utils/Makefile.am: sbin_PROGRAMS = nfnl_osf pkgdata_DATA = pf.os nfnl_osf_LDADD = -lnfnetlink
USE=netlink controls the dep in 1.4.10-r1