Richard Heck wrote: > But nonetheless, someone on gentoo who did not previously have xetex > support, but who has compiled 2.0.0 already, can add it by acquiring the > xetex binary
thats right for xetex/luatex and few others USE flags. they are there merely for pulling running depencies, not that they are needed for compilation. so no need to recompile lyx if you know which packages should be emerged to the system. pavel