> PDEPEND means soft-dependencies like plugins You might want to read the docs again: $ man 5 ebuild | grep -A 4 '^ *PDEPEND' PDEPEND

> PDEPEND means soft-dependencies like plugins You might want to read the docs again: $ man 5 ebuild | grep -A 4 '^ *PDEPEND' PDEPEND This should contain a list of all packages that should be merged after this one (aka post merge dependencies), but which may be installed by the package manager at any time, if that is not possible. This is in your [3]: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/#post-merge-dependencies https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/#... > systemd has no dependency to dbus Last time I heard anything about it, systemd was so tightly coupled to dbus it would crash PID 1 if you restarted dbus and hang the system. Maybe that's changed? I doubt it given Lennart's explanation (which, by the way, includes the claim that "D-Bus is rock solid these days"). https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-January/008456.html https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-Ja...