Just to drop a note in case it went by unnoticed: Due to the great work of George Staikos and Chris Blizzard, KDE 3.3 won't need a Motif anymore to make netscape plugins work. So the (optional) dependency in the ebuild is moot. See also [1,2,3]. [1]http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.core/20139 [2]http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80260 [3]http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.cvs/202532
thanks - will update when next build comes out.
this is fixed in 3.3.0_rc1.