The package appears to accept the global X flag, however it is not honored as dependencies are required with hardwired X flag. Reproducible: Always
Really, I think it's more that X should be called gui or something, as it just controls XDG bits. I don't think the X deps on any of these things are necessarily then optional.
The X USE flag enables `xdg` in the FEATURES variable that's passed to emake. The only purpose of it is to install the icons and all of the desktop files for gui menus. However, if the 'jack' USE flag is not enabled with the `X` flag, it doesn't install any binaries referenced in those desktop files. So launching any of those programs from the desktop entry results in something like "Could not find the program 'lsp-plugins-multisampler-x24-do'", for example. It makes sense to keep the X flag, or whatever named flag that becomes, because there are a tremendous number of desktop entries that get dumped in the "Multimedia" category that some users would prefer to avoid. But including `xdg` in FEATURES should depend on both that flag and the 'jack' flag.
I am running into a similar issue, which I have documented [here](https://github.com/lsp-plugins/lsp-plugins/issues/401#issuecomment-2237499582): ``` (x11-libs/cairo-1.18.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="X glib (-aqua) (-debug) -gtk-doc -test" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" pulled in by x11-libs/cairo[X] required by (media-libs/lsp-plugins-1.2.14:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="lv2 -X -doc -jack -ladspa -test -vst" ABI_X86="(64)" ^ ``` I first thought that it was an issue with lsp-plugins, hence I commented on their GitHub first, but as explained [here](https://github.com/lsp-plugins/lsp-plugins/issues/401#issuecomment-2238734424) it seems like it's a packaging issue. I am trying to build without `jack`: ``` * Found these USE flags for media-libs/lsp-plugins-1.2.14: U I - - X : Add support for X11 - - doc : Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally - - jack : Add support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit - - ladspa : Enable the ability to support ladspa plugins + - lv2 : Build lv2 plugins - - test : Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently) - - vst : Support LinuxVST plugins ```
