USE flag "avahi" has been removed from net-misc/vinagre which is a dependency of gnome-base/gnome. I don't want avahi on my system. But now, with the disappearance of the avahi USE flag from this package, I no longer have that choice. Is avahi now a mandatory component of Gnome? # equery depends avahi Password: [ Searching for packages depending on avahi... ] app-crypt/seahorse-2.22.3 (avahi? >=net-dns/avahi-0.6) gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.24.0 (avahi? >=net-dns/avahi-0.6) gnome-base/gvfs-1.0.1 (avahi? >=net-dns/avahi-0.6) net-misc/ntp-4.2.4_p5 (zeroconf? net-dns/avahi) net-misc/vinagre-2.24.1 (>=net-dns/avahi-0.6.22) net-misc/vino-2.22.2 (avahi? >=net-dns/avahi-0.6) net-print/cups-1.3.9 (avahi? net-dns/avahi) www-client/epiphany-2.24.0.1 (avahi? >=net-dns/avahi-0.6.22) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -uavDN world 2. watch in horror as you are told you now must have avahi on your system 3. thump palm to face Actual Results: Dependency: net-misc/vinagre-2.24.1 (>=net-dns/avahi-0.6.22) Expected Results: Dependency: net-misc/vinagre-2.24.1 (avahi? >=net-dns/avahi-0.6.22) # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r2-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_1400MHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:18:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.26 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="en_US en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 acl acpi alsa berkdb bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdread eds encode esd evo exif fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick java jpeg libnotify logrotate mad midi mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds python quicktime readline reflection reiserfs samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs threads tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs x86 xcb xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en_US en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
please use ALL while searching for preceeding bugs, thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 243004 ***
