-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>On Sunday 26 February 2006 04:21, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about >'[gentoo-user] BS dependencies?': > >>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? Now, I'm assuming that >>the net-misc/ntp package is actually the daemon, and not just the >>client. > > >NTP is similar to many P2P protocols in that "clients" are normally also >long running background processes, daemons (or paenguins). There are some >clients that use NTP messages to fetch a single time and set your clock >using it, but then you still get network latency "noise" and other >inaccuracies. For daily work that's really not a big deal, but if you are >going to use NTP I suggest you really use NTP and run a daemon. The >default config for both net-misc/ntp and openntpd does not listen on any >ports by default, so it shouldn't raise many security issues. > >As far an these unwanted dependencies go, could you please provide the >output for emerge -pvt net-misc/ntp so we can see the whole dependency >chain? > >>Can anyone suggest a client *only* package? I've got a system that >>doesn't hold it's time after a reboot - all I really need is the >>ability to update the system time. > > >Just use rdate then. > I'm looking into `rdate'. But here is the list of dependencies that comes up. I think Mr. Fish may have hit the nail on the "recursive dependencies", as I do have 'python' and 'php' in my USE flags (included below). emerge -pvt net-misc/ntp These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4 -X +berkdb +crypt -curl -debug - -doc (-fdftk) -firebird -flash -freetds -gd -gd-external +gdbm -gmp - -hardenedphp -imap (-informix) -ipv6 (-java) +jpeg -kerberos -ldap - -mcal -memlimit -mssql -mysql +ncurses +nls (-oci8) -odbc +pam +png - -postgres +readline -snmp +spell +ssl -tiff +truetype +xml2 -yaz 4,339 kB [ebuild N ] net-misc/ntp-4.2.0.20040617-r3 -debug -ipv6 - -logrotate -nodroproot -openntpd -parse-clocks (-selinux) +ssl 2,403 kB [ebuild N ] sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r5 -nocxx +python -static 38 kB [ebuild N ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 -X -doc -guile (-java) +perl +php +python -ruby -tcltk 1,975 kB [ebuild N ] dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r9 -X +apache2 +berkdb +crypt -curl -debug -doc (-fdftk) -firebird -flash -freetds -gd - -gd-external +gdbm -gmp -hardenedphp -imap (-informix) -ipv6 (-java) +jpeg -kerberos -ldap -mcal -memlimit -mssql -mysql +nls (-oci8) -odbc +pam +png -postgres -snmp +spell +ssl -tiff +truetype +xml2 -yaz 0 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/t1lib-5.0.2 -X -doc 1,657 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/freetype-1.3.1-r4 +nls -tetex 1,919 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.8 -doc 0 kB [ebuild NS ] sys-libs/db-1.85-r2 279 kB [ebuild N ] app-text/sablotron-1.0.1 -doc +perl 474 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/jpeg-6b-r5 0 kB [ebuild N ] net-www/apache-2.0.55-r1 +apache2 -debug -doc - -ldap -mpm-leader (-mpm-peruser) -mpm-prefork -mpm-threadpool - -mpm-worker -no-suexec (-selinux) +ssl -static-modules +threads 4,684 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.7 +berkdb +gdbm -ldap 724 kB [ebuild N ] app-misc/mime-types-4 7 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/apr-0.9.7 -ipv6 -urandom 1,020 kB [ebuild N ] net-www/gentoo-webroot-default-0.2 -no-htdocs 64 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.15 +crypt -debug +python - -static 1,780 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.23 -debug -doc -ipv6 +python +readline 3,338 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libmcrypt-2.5.7 511 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1 -bindist -doc +zlib 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-text/aspell-0.50.5-r4 -gpm 992 kB USE flags from `emerge --info': USE="sparc apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdb crypt cups dlloader eds encode esd expat fastcgi fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif gstreamer gtk2 iconv imlib javascript jpeg libwww mad mbox mhash mikmod milter mime motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png python readline sdl socketstcpd spell ssl symlink tcpd threads tidy truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vhosts vorbis xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xsl xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" (NOTE: This differs from what is actuall in my '/etc/make.conf'): USE="-X -kde -qt -gnome -gtk perl php python ssl apache2 fastcgi iconv java javascript libwww mime milter mbox ncurses pcre socketstcpd spell threads tidy vhosts xml xml2 xmlrpc xsl zlib symlink" - -- gentux echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEAftFLYGSSmmWCZMRAhqtAJ9zXcQiDz7+dCXV12NjRahxLTLDbACgtp7J byQW2LizpEh0nJ52DARW/f0= =zOUP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
