In particular the cdda2wav application links to libpulse.so and libpulse-simple.so if they are present on the system. Ideally this would be a use flag, or just cut out, as it doesn't seem like pulseaudio should be necessary to convert from cdda to wav file formats (not playing audio). Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 489362 [details, diff] add "pulseaudio" USE here patch
changes for cdrtools-3.02_alpha06.ebuild the same
This is fixed in GIT. Thanks for the report and patch. I just disabled linking to pulseaudio unconditionally.