On 2/26/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
