In icedtea-bin-7.2.3.3 ebuild, x11-libs/libXext is set in X_COMMON_DEP. It is though a generic dependency and isn't affected by the X use flag. I have -X set in my use flags. I emerged icedtea-bin without problems. For some reason I had libXext installed. An emerge --depclean decided to remove libXext as unneeded, but portage preserved its libraries as they are used by icedtea-bin. Now, every time I run emerge, portage asks me to re-emerge icedtea-bin in order to remove preserved-libs. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # emerge -1 icedtea-bin ... ... ... * Adjusting to prefix / * fontconfig.Gentoo.properties ... [ ok ] * Adjusting to prefix / * icedtea-bin-7 ... [ ok ] >>> Completed installing icedtea-bin-7.2.3.3 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.3.3/image/ ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/doc >>> Installing (1 of 1) dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.3.3 >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. !!! existing preserved libs: >>> package: x11-libs/libXext-1.3.1 * - /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6 * - /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0 * used by /opt/icedtea-bin-7.2.3.3/jre/lib/amd64/libsplashscreen.so (dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.3.3) >>> package: net-libs/gnutls-3.1.3 * - /usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.26 * - /usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.26.22.4 * used by /usr/lib64/libldap-2.4.so.2.8.5 (net-nds/openldap-2.4.33) * used by /usr/lib64/libldap_r-2.4.so.2.8.5 (net-nds/openldap-2.4.33) * used by /usr/lib64/openldap/openldap/back_perl-2.4.so.2.8.5 (net-nds/openldap-2.4.33) Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries # emerge --info Portage 2.1.11.31 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Changed summary to show root of the issue. I would think that libspashscreen.so is only useful when X is available, so it might be best to simply not install it with USE=-X.
Seems to be the same issue with icedtea version (not binary) both 7 and 6 versions.
Now fixed though the X flag has changed to awt.
