We have in ebuild: DEPEND=" sys-devel/gettext ncurses? ( sys-libs/ncurses ) readline? ( sys-libs/readline ) " RDEPEND="${DEPEND}" AFAIK, gettext is needed only in build-time. Reproducible: Always
yes, scanelf says: amd64box ~ # scan hunspell app-text/hunspell (/usr/lib64/libhunspell-1.3.so.0) sys-devel/gcc (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/libstdc++.so.6) sys-libs/glibc (/lib64/libc.so.6) sys-libs/ncurses (/lib64/libncursesw.so.5) sys-libs/readline (/lib64/libreadline.so.6)
Thank you for report. Fixed.