When trying to emerge gnuplot with USE="-emacs", it still brings in emacs as a dependency: [ebuild U ] sci-visualization/gnuplot-4.4.3-r1 [4.4.3] USE="X cairo gd latex readline -doc -emacs -ggi -lua -plotutils (-svga) -thin-splines -wxwidgets -xemacs" 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/emacs-23 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-editors/emacs-23.3 USE="X alsa dbus gif gtk jpeg png sound svg tiff xpm -Xaw3d (-aqua) -gconf -gpm -gzip-el -hesiod -kerberos -m17n-lib -motif -source -toolkit-scroll-bars -xft" 34,520 kB
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 368269 ***