it's probably being brought down as a dependancy of something else (because of the --deep). imho, you should always look at what is going to be installed before actually installing it with either --pretend or --ask.
the best way to see what is causing it to be installed is to run 'emerge -uDptv world' (aka --update --deep --pretend --tree --verbose). this will show you a 'tree' of dependancies. also, the -v causes emerge to show the use flags used by a package, which can influence what it depends on. -- trey -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
