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A complaint that I've seen in the comments section of every single |
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Gentoo review is "I tried to emerge VIM on my server and it wants to |
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install X. Gentoo sucks!" or something along those lines. At first, |
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the answer seems obvious: |
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USE="-X" emerge vim |
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It doesn't work, unless you happen to have the rest of your USE flags |
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set exactly right. When you look at the dependancies in the ebuild, |
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you find that it also can depend on gtk. All right: |
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USE="-X -gtk" emerge vim |
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Still wants to install X. Now, we start digging. And discover that |
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python is causing the problem because it can depend on tcltk, which |
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depends on X. |
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USE="-X -gtk -tcltk" emerge vim |
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This should work in all cases. As far as I can tell. |
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Same problem with nethack and a few other programs. It's not a big |
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deal for those of us who are willing to dig through all of the ebuilds |
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looking for a stray dependency, just a pain in the ass, but it really |
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sucks for new users who just want to set up a server. |
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A possible solution: super USE flags, for want of a better name. |
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Something along the lines of USE="noX", where |
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noX=-X -gtk -gtk2 -qt -qtmt -tcltk -fltk -gnome -gnome-libs -kde -bonobo -xv -dga (any other toolkits, etc) |
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nodb=-postgres -mysql -berkdb -gdbm -innodb (any other databases) |
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nosound=-als -oss -esd -arts -oggvorbis (any other sound stuff) |
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nofb=-directfb fbcon |
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noscript=-perl -python -ruby -tcltk -guile |
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I think you get the idea. That way, if you want to guarantee |
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installing vim without X support: |
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USE="noX" emerge vim |
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What do you guys think. |
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Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once. |
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