If I have USE="-X", then merging an app that depends on gnome (or anything else that eventually depends on X) should not work. In other words: 'emerge foo' -> depends on gnome -> depends on X -> user said "I dont want X" -> exit ERROR: -X requested, X exists in foo dependancy tree...etc This comes from the "why is vim merging X/gtk/gnome when I have USE=-X" issue. Some discussion of this here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15371
Okay, USE dosent seem to be meant for what I'm asking. Something along the lines of /etc/package.mask is more accurate. Basically a mask file ment for sysadmin use (in the thinking that /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask being is for distro-admin use).
I've been pointed to 5622, thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5622 ***