[gentoo-user] Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?

[Harry Putnam]

No doubt suffering from overdose of pilot error here but on a new (in
progress) install of gentoo as guest in vbox.  I ran the command

emerge -vp dev-vcs/git  and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be
installed.

Well, that seems just a wee bit excessive for an install just getting
underway.. no X and very bare bones so far.

So I imagine I've done something thats causing that massive of a list
of dependencies.

I tried a few USE flags like -X and that did drop it down to
187... but jeez still thats a bit off the wall.

I am running ~x86, but cancelling that only drops the count by a
couple of pkgs too.

I do have a few USE flags in make.conf:

USE="bindist mbox
    -ipv6 -screensaver -selinux"  (bindist appeared there by default)

Does this seem a bit unreasonable to anyone else?