chkrootkit-0.49 now has RDEPEND="virtual/cron". This should depend on the cron USE flag (which already exists for that purpose): I'm on a laptop, I don't have cron (it makes no sense on a laptop), and chkrootkit is the only package pulling in cron. I run chkrootkit manually (on demand).
(In reply to comment #0) > chkrootkit-0.49 now has RDEPEND="virtual/cron". > > This should depend on the cron USE flag (which already exists for that > purpose): > I'm on a laptop, I don't have cron (it makes no sense on a laptop) Not entirely true as non-traditional cron packages like fcron can be useful on systems that are not up all the time. Anyway, I agree and should probably have had a use flag enable the dep and install the related file in the first place. :)
Added to chkrootkit-0.49 without a revision bump and defaulted to be on to preserve the original non-useflag state. If you don't want cron, unset the use flag for chkrootkit. :) This will have to do until we get some sort of recommended deps functionality in a future EAPI.
Works for me.
