Created attachment 418306 [details] emerge info While updating my Xless server, I'm surprised of a lot of X packages pulled by dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.6.2 update. # emerge -p1 icedtea-bin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] x11-proto/xextproto-7.3.0 USE="-doc" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-proto/inputproto-2.3.1 ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] media-fonts/font-util-1.3.1 [ebuild N ] x11-misc/util-macros-1.19.0 [ebuild N ] x11-proto/renderproto-0.11.1-r1 ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.7 ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/xtrans-1.3.5 USE="-doc" [ebuild N ] x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0-r1 ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.1.2 USE="-doc -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXau-1.0.8 USE="-static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libpthread-stubs-0.3-r1 USE="-static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-proto/recordproto-1.14.2-r1 USE="-doc" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-proto/xcb-proto-1.11 ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 -python3_3" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libxcb-1.11.1 USE="-doc (-selinux) -static-libs {-test} -xkb" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-proto/fixesproto-5.0-r1 ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libX11-1.6.3 USE="-doc -ipv6 -static-libs {-test}" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXext-1.3.3 USE="-doc -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.9 USE="-static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXfixes-5.0.1 USE="-static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXi-1.7.5 USE="-doc -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXtst-1.2.2 USE="-doc -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" [ebuild R ] dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.6.2 I had to add all of them to /etc/portage/profile/packages.provided to update icedtea-bin alone.
Please enable the "headless-awt" USE flag. Sorry for any confusion around this but it simply wasn't feasible to stick with the "X" flag for reasons I won't bore you with. I initially went with "awt", which was enabled by default so I guess you either had USE="-awt" or USE="-*" or maybe you just haven't updated in a while. Upstream, who actually do a lot of the work on these ebuilds, didn't like "awt" because it was technically inaccurate and the Java community is more familiar with the term headless. I went with "headless-awt" as a compromise but there was no way to escape the fact that this is a negative flag so opting out in this case requires a little more thought. Negative flags aren't great but on balance, I felt it was better to align with upstream and the other distros. If you find yourself in this situation in future, please check the USE flag descriptions.
