When im-ja is emerge with the following USE="cjk nls freewnn unicode X -gtk -gnome -gtk2 -gtkhtml qt kde" The dependencies includes Gnome related libs / icons Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="cjk nls freewnn unicode X -gtk -gnome -gtk2 -gtkhtml qt kde" 2. emerge im-ja --pretend 3. Actual Results: # emerge im-ja --pretend These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] x11-libs/pango-1.4.0 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/atk-1.6.1 [ebuild N ] x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme-0.4 [ebuild N ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-1.2.1 [ebuild N ] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.14 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.4.1 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.3 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/ORBit2-2.10.0 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gconf-2.6.0 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/MIME-Base64-3.00 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/URI-1.30 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/libglade-2.3.6 [ebuild N ] app-i18n/im-ja-1.0-r2 Expected Results: # emerge im-ja --pretend These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] x11-libs/pango-1.4.0 [ebuild N ] x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme-0.4 [ebuild N ] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.14 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/MIME-Base64-3.00 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/URI-1.30 [ebuild N ] app-i18n/im-ja-1.0-r2 # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r5 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache distcc sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO http://gentoo.gg3.net/ http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/ ftp://gg3.net/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://www.zentek-international.com/mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr cjk crypt cups divx4linux dvd encode evo foomaticdb freewnn gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm imlib jikes jpeg kde libg++ libwww linguas_en linguas_fr linguas_jp mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga szip tcpd truetype unicode x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
`ldd /usr/bin/im-ja-xim-server` shows that it links to pango, atk, gtk+2, gconf, ORBit and so on, so I don't think we can do much on it.