Readline and ncurses are merely said to be build time dependencies in the ebuild of sci-mathematics/calc-2.12.1.5. But they are certainly needed for running 'calc', too: $ readelf -d /usr/bin/calc Dynamic section at offset 0xb2bf0 contains 26 entries: Tag Type Name/Value 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libreadline.so.5] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libhistory.so.5] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libncurses.so.5] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6] [...]
Hi Sascha, Thank you very much for pointing this out! I've just fixed RDEPEND in portage cvs and bumped calc to the most recent release. cheers, Markus