No doubt suffering from overdose of pilot error here but on a new (in progress) install of gentoo as guest in vbox. I ran the command
emerge -vp dev-vcs/git and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be installed. Well, that seems just a wee bit excessive for an install just getting underway.. no X and very bare bones so far. So I imagine I've done something thats causing that massive of a list of dependencies. I tried a few USE flags like -X and that did drop it down to 187... but jeez still thats a bit off the wall. I am running ~x86, but cancelling that only drops the count by a couple of pkgs too. I do have a few USE flags in make.conf: USE="bindist mbox -ipv6 -screensaver -selinux" (bindist appeared there by default) Does this seem a bit unreasonable to anyone else?