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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 05:03:13
Message-Id: 994cdcae-da06-ea0a-39ab-8b5b5f865b0a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?! by Grant Edwards
1 On 2020-07-21 12:00, Grant Edwards wrote:
2 >
3 > That only requires 6 new packages (two of them are
4 > acct-{user,group}/polkitd, so it's only 4 new "real" packages. Of
5 > course every self-respecting package needs to install at least one new
6 > programming language -- this time it's dev-lang/spidermonkey. :/
7 >
8 > Sheesh.
9 >
10
11 You can get rid of a few of those with
12
13 sys-auth/elogind -policykit
14 sys-auth/pambase elogind
15
16 in package.use, if you don't need whatever it is that policykit does.