Hi In a fresh 1.2.9 unpacked source directory: $ grep -ir libpcap * $ grep -ir pcap * So what exactly is that dependency for anyway ? Was it for capabilities and libcap ? Even so proftpd comes with its own libcap version and doesnt use system's (as from my understanding of it's configure.in). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.0) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control /var/qmail/alias /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo ftp://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apm arts avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pdflib png quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline mysql tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python -X -gtk -gnome -alsa -kde -oss -gpm -java -qt gd"
okay... here's the scoop... back in release 1.2.5 proftpd depended on libpcap... now it doesn't anymore... I have removed the dependancy from the 1.2.9 build and the non-needed src_unpack() section
