Pgadmin3-1.2.1 wont need postgresql, but it requires it Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.21 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r7 i686)mypc drew # USE="-*" emerge pgadmin3 -pv These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild NS ] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.0 -debug -dmalloc -doc -gnome -gtk2 -joystick -jpeg -odbc -opengl -png -sdl -tiff -unicode -wxgtk1 -zlib 12,730 kB [ebuild N ] dev-db/postgresql-8.0.2 -debug -doc -kerberos -libg++ -nls -pam -perl -pg-intdatetime -python -readline (-selinux) -ssl -tcltk -xml2 -zlib 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-db/pgadmin3-1.2.1 [1.2.0] 3,764 kB Total size of downloads: 16,495 kB ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.11 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r8 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.KOI8-R" LC_ALL="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 userland_GNU kernel_linux libc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
yes and no. pgadmin doesn't need postgresql server as you say. but it requires libpq which in postgresql package. we've been planning to take libpq out from postgresql package. after that, we can remove postgresql dependency..
please see bug #55073
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55073 ***