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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new
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On 2020-07-21 12:00, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> That only requires 6 new packages (two of them are
> acct-{user,group}/polkitd, so it's only 4 new "real" packages. Of
> course every self-respecting package needs to install at least one new
> programming language -- this time it's dev-lang/spidermonkey. :/
> 
> Sheesh.
> 

You can get rid of a few of those with

  sys-auth/elogind -policykit
  sys-auth/pambase elogind

in package.use, if you don't need whatever it is that policykit does.