Since google is your friend, if you had searched for "gentoo
amanda-client", you would've found some more information. 
"amanda-client" as your only search keyword returns some distros that
have seperate server/client packages  (like Debian, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD).  But these seem to be, if these packages are still
active, distro-created seperate packages.  If you look at the
official website (<a href="http://amanda.org">http://amanda.org</a>), you will see that even the
official releases don't have seperate server/client packages.&nbsp; The
server/client all come in the same gzipped tar file.&nbsp; Now, if you
were to request an ebuild for the client be made (I checked
<a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org">bugs.gentoo.org</a>, nothing there mentioning a client-only version), or
possibly a specific use flag for the ebuild (say amandaserver), someone
might be happy enough to make one for you (or you can always nudge the
package maintainer).<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jorge Almeida</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt">jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Google says there exists such a thing as &quot;amanda-client&quot;, but it's not<br>in portage.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;jorge@jmaa ~ $ emerge -pv amanda<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;These are the packages that I would merge, in order:<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Calculating dependencies ...done!
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ebuild&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;] mail-client/mailx-support-20030215&nbsp;&nbsp;8 kB<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ebuild&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]
net-libs/liblockfile-1.06&nbsp;&nbsp;31 kB<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ebuild&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]
mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20040524-r1&nbsp;&nbsp;126 kB<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ebuild&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]
sys-block/mtx-1.2.18&nbsp;&nbsp;163 kB<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ebuild&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]
app-arch/mt-st-0.7-r1&nbsp;&nbsp;34 kB<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ebuild&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]
app-arch/dump-0.4.39&nbsp;&nbsp;+readline -static 270 kB<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ebuild&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]
media-libs/pdflib-5.0.4_p1-r1&nbsp;&nbsp;+java +perl +python -tcltk
2,759 kB<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ebuild&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]
media-gfx/gnuplot-4.0-r1&nbsp;&nbsp;+X +doc -emacs -gd -ggi +pdflib
-plotutils +png +readline -svga -xemacs 2,110 kB<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ebuild&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]
app-backup/amanda-2.4.5&nbsp;&nbsp;-berkdb -debug -gdbm -samba -xfs
1,505 kB<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total size of downloads: 7,009 kB<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;~<br>Judging from the names, most of these packages appear to be useful only<br>in the server (gnuplot, ...).<br>I need to setup the computer as client only.
<br>What to do? Should I emerge all of this? (Or are these just small<br>emerges?)<br><br>--<br>Jorge Almeida<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div>
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>- Mark Shields