media-sound/ncmpcpp is a media player client which allows connecting to a mpd server (provided by media-sound/mpd), locally or over a network. However, neither by default or by use flag does this pull in mpd. This results in attempting to use ncmpcpp and it not working on the local machine. I believe that adding a use flag for mpd and enabling it by default would be the best remedy. that being said, there are other clients for mpd, and none of them handle this issue either. I can certainly attempt to compile a list of them if the decision is made to change this current behavior.
If you don't know how mpd works, then we cannot protect you from disappointment by adding technical workarounds that force (other) users to install mpd. You'd still find out that mpd wasn't running locally, and you'd have to configure it properly, and so on. That said, I have just updated the DESCRIPTION to match what's on the HOMEPAGE, and that explicitly refers to ncmpcpp as an MPD client.
