[SOLVED]nsupdate and emerging BIND

[Varsuuk]

I am redoing my pc and part of what I setup on the old one was that I used my pc as a firewall/router and it would use a friends DNS server for my domain.

I had a dhcpd script that runs and updates domain records on his pc whenever my network came up (possibly with different IP address)

I recall needing to emerge bind to get nsupdate but since I have not yet finished 'creating' my box, usually I do the initial install then desktop guide, I don't have X or KDE etc emerged.
When I try to emerge BIND, due to my many USE flags, it tries to emerge alot of things which involve X etc.

I don't want to do anything that is a pain to me later when I do the desktop environ (hopefully this weekend) especially since I have workarounds where I manually update some files and it is all good. But I worry that there will be a reboot due to power blip or something and my wife will be stuck without the new unless I talk her through some scripts I setup for her to 'fix' it.

Can I emerge BIND to get nsupdate in a way that prevents the 3 pages of other stuff - I am not sure which if the USE lines are the ROOT cause, there is so much output. In the past, "doc" was the fault of this sort of thing but doc is not defined this time.

ie: something like:
USE="" emerge bind // (I know that isn't right - jsut saying something quickly pare down the flags or if not tips on reading output to do it )

but that when I decide to reemerge bind normally:
emerge -a --newuse bind
it will rebuild it with the new use flags? Are there any bad sideeffects of this method (assuming there is a way to do a general blanking of my defined useflags)

[Varsuuk]

OK -got the right use flags turned off and emergwed.

Maybe I should have checked first

OK - WHAT supplies nsupdate? I thought it was bind as I had that in my last installs distfiles of portage and assumed that's where got it since rang bell.

Anyone?

[Varsuuk]

I did an equery of bind, the use flags that were set are:

berkdb, idn, ipv6, mysql, odbc, postgres, ssl, threads


No nsupdate on my system - did bind USED to supply this? is it elsewhere now?

[Varsuuk]

emerge bind-tools gives you nsupdate.

Now, once I install X, I'll try the whole --revdep --newuse thing to remove my unneeded bind emerge. bind-tools does not rely on it according to trying it on my laptop install.