On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 14:45 +0200, Jarry wrote: [...] > man sensord: > > DESCRIPTION > Sensord is a daemon that can be used to periodically log > sensor readings from hardware health-monitoring chips to > syslog(3) ***OR*** a round-robin database (RRD) and to alert > when a sensor alarm is signalled; for example, if a fan fails, > a temperature limit is exceeded, etc. > > You see that big fat ***OR*** there? syslog or RRD. And I think > even gentoo-user should have the right to choose what he wants > to do with those sensor-readings. Definitelly I'm against any > x11-libs on my server, be it x11-misc/read-edid or x11-libs/cairo. > > BTW, sensord can write data to round-robin database even if no > rrd-tool is installed. There's no need to put net-analyzer/rrdtool > as a dependency...
So if you believe there is a bug with the ebuild, you can submit a bug report to bugs.gentoo.org. As always, patches are welcomed. -a