Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu>
Cc: Spider <spider@g.o>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmerging dependent packages
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:17:55
Message-Id: 1082229472.7816.3.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmerging dependent packages by John Nilsson
1 On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 10:54, John Nilsson wrote:
2 > Sorry I should have been more specific. I meant that "-X" explicitly
3 > states no X, so a package such as tk should fail because it depends on
4 > X.
5
6 ...except that -X *doesn't* mean "no X" at all. It means "Don't build
7 optional support for X in packages that support it" instead.
8
9 If you don't want X at all, you can't install any packages that require
10 it. It is that simple.
11
12 --
13 Chris Gianelloni
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