equery USE flag does not match dependencies of installed pac

[forestcat]

When I try to "emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps=y world", I get some blocks related to qtsvg, so I wanted to remove this package. However, 'equery depends' says that wpa_supplicant depends on qtsvg, while 'equery uses' says that wpa_supplicant is installed without the qt4 flag, which is what apparently brings in qtsvg as a dependency in the ebuild. Apparently equery depends is not aware of my USE flags or the flags used by the packages that are installed.

However, emerge --depclean qtsvg does not list any dependencies, so I suppose this is a better way to ensure that I can remove this package. Is this correct?

See output below.

[dol-sen]

Equery's reverse dependency lookup does not check that use flag conditions are met for the dep.
It just checks all installed pkgs for a dependency that matches the search criteria.
For it to do use flag validation and linking checks, would slow it down even further. The more installed pkgs you have the longer it will be to do a complete search run.
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