Relevant portion of the build attached. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-4.0.1, glibc-2.3.5.20050722-r0, 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1, 2.16.90.0.3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/env.d /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/local/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect cvs digest distlocks sandbox sfperms sign strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/ ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/buildroot" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/ka0ttic/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aim alsa apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzlib cdr crypt cscope esd fam fbcon gdbm gif gtk gtk2 imap imlib jpeg maildir mailwrapper mikmod mmx ncurses nls nptl offensive opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python readline ruby sasl sdl slang snmp sse ssl svga tcpd truetype unicode usb x86 xml2 xmms xscreensaver zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Created attachment 65450 [details] build-snippet.txt
From reading the ebuild, it looks like tetex (which provides latex and dvips) is only pulled in as a dependency when USE="doc" is specified.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101337 ***
