Hi, I'm trying to build a small system that installs just the needed libraries. One of the programs is ACE libs. ldd shows: (hardend) goofy catalyst # ldd /usr/lib/libACE-6.0.1.so linux-gate.so.1 => (0xa2782000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xa25bd000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xa25b9000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/libstdc++.so.6 (0xa24bd000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xa2496000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xa2310000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xa22f6000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xa22dc000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xa2783000) In the ebuild there is no mention of runtime dependency like gcc or glibc. ... COMMON_DEPEND="dev-libs/openssl" # TODO probably more RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND} X? ( x11-libs/libXt x11-libs/libXaw )" DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND} X? ( x11-proto/xproto )" ... I have added virtual/libc sys-devel/gcc to RDEPEND, but this will install gcc. I would like to avoid installing gcc, and would like to install just the libraries. Is this approach correct? Why sys-devel/gcc don't have a library version without the actual compiler? Regards, Kfir