After writing a net-www/ ebuild it seemed apparent to me that we are going to need an apache.eclass. A quick find in portage reveals quite a few independent ebuilds all needing the basic functionality that could be provided by an apache.eclass syntactically perfect the idea is what matters.. I have attached an apache.eclass that I welcome your input/feedback on. While it may not be syntactically perfect for the apache2 part its the idea that we get this out there and start talking about one that matters. my portage # find . -name '*.ebuild' | xargs grep HTTPD_USER= | wc 22 96 1904 my portage # find . -name '*.ebuild' | xargs grep HTTPD_GROUP= | wc 21 123 2081 my portage # find . -name '*.ebuild' | xargs grep HTTPD_ROOT= | wc 50 299 5154 -- Ned Ludd Gentoo Linux (Hardened)