please add libpcap as RDEPEND for all tcpdump ebuilds, since it's a dynamically linked library needed by your application. [1] when installing from binary packages (think catalyst or an enterprise setup), only RDEPEND is checked and that one is missing in your case. [2] [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29509/ thanks, peter
peter: Same here. Quoting `man 5 ebuild`: RDEPEND This should contain a list of all packages that are required for this program to run (aka runtime depend). If this is not set, then it defaults to the value of DEPEND. You may use the same syntax to vary dependencies as seen above in DEPEND. None of ebuilds in net-analyzer/tcpdupm have RDEPEND variable thus I think this is not a bug. Reopen, please, if I'm wrong.