On 15/06/12 16:23, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Asfand Qazi<aq2@...>  wrote:
>> Hello, when I've been trying to do a emerge -DuvNta world recently, this is
>> what I've been getting:
>>
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "app-text/ghostscript-gpl[cups]".
>> (dependency required by "net-print/cups-1.5.3" [ebuild])
>> (dependency required by "dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.1-r1[X]" [ebuild])
>> (dependency required by "@selected" [set])
>> (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
>>
>> I can create my own ebuild in my local overlay, but is there a more
>> permanent fix to this?
>
> USE=cups is masked. icedtea-bin[X] requires cups. icedtea-bin is not
> keyworded for Gentoo Prefix.
>
> With that above info, we have already taken care of protecting users
> who are not hacking on Gentoo Prefix. After looking at the icedtea-bin
> ebuild, looks like you can disable USE=X and install it without cups?
>
> Good luck, you are in untested/unsupported territory,
> Jeremy
>

Thanks.  I kind of need X with iced-tea to run desktop apps, so I'll try 
unmasking USE=cups and see what happens.

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       Asfand Yar Qazi
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       Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute


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