From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FDQWB-0002Y7-3M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:21:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1QIJto1007251; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:19:55 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1QIG3Da007856 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:16:04 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 70so673487wra for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:16:03 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=S2W3Xt+0n3zkL7JTZE47TfRW6DGS6GqK2zcBVXzx93MSBxjnmymDNhWRvIgqJXeANhbtR0hVuQ2QfcoKNraIEJWU7SFq2bv5Uwzz6NMOgk166prk+l6sire+QozE5rLVzT2QJ5eCslRDOA0Pw1sE8/Q/RtvsOdtUgtGq39cILV4= Received: by 10.54.107.17 with SMTP id f17mr2467795wrc; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:16:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.69.19 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:16:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640602261016m5f5f226av6034a2e72f4160f0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:16:02 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] BS dependencies? In-Reply-To: <44018141.9060605@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <44018141.9060605@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1QIG3Da007856 X-Archives-Salt: cd1a88f5-e609-48b0-bef2-297068fe6507 X-Archives-Hash: 1ed68d244acff2e484fc1023ffef3ea1 On 2/26/06, gentuxx wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Why in the world to I need Apache, php(4), and a whole host of other > packages (22 to be exact) just to install NTP? Probably because your USE flags are telling portage that you want all of those dependancies. If you don't have USE=nodroproot (which would be a bad idea, BTW), ntp depends on sys-libs/libcap. sys-libs/libcap depends on dev-lang/swig if you have USE=python. dev-lang/swig depends dev-lang/php if you have USE=php. dev-lang/php depends on apache. ...and so on. If you want to avoid such dependancies, you should set USE=-* in /etc/make.conf, and then set each USE flag specifically for each package that you want it on in /etc/portage/package.use. If you do this, be very careful in the conversion of your system, as you can break things easily (for example, if you have pam, and end up with -pam.) -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list