Hey Nicholas!   
      
    NB> Even when you upgrade things you already have new dependencies   
    NB> keep getting added. ;)   
      
   Not that I know for sure about gentoo, there are dependencies that can be   
   dropped without any harm to the total end result.  Case in point is the   
   addition of python3 and a couple of it's offshoots to a basic LFS build.    
   Those can be safely skipped over but I get the impression that it might cause   
   some grief later on if the more needy xorg and the ilk are of interest.   
      
   In my case 144 'packages' is all I will be using in the immediate future.  One   
   of them is python2 which glib, and hence mc, require.  I could learn to live   
   without mc and that would rid me of those two dependencies given nothing else   
   absolutely needs them.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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