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From: Indi <thebeelzebubtrigger@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 14:38:36
Message-Id: 20110514143708.GA10155@gaurahari
1 On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:30:02AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Apparently, though unproven, at 05:28 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Felix Miata did
3 > opine thusly:
4 >
5 > >
6 > > Is it telling me I have to change my USE from -gtk to +gtk, or can emerging
7 > > one of those 8 packages listed satisfy the dep? IOW, it's unclear to me
8 > > what "One of the following packages" actually refers to.
9 >
10 > It's telling you that you must enable USE=gtk for libcanberra for that build
11 > to succeed. The chain of packages listed won't solve the problem, they are
12 > causing it.
13 >
14 > Easiest is to list gtk in USE in make.conf, then everything that uses gtk will
15 > link against it. If you are worried about Gnome, this wil not cause gnome to
16 > be installed, just gtk+
17 >
18
19 True, just be aware that if you enable gtk *globally* you will end up
20 building the gtk interface for absolutely everything which has that
21 option.
22 Far better (IMO, YMMV) is to use /etc/portage/package.use specify such things
23 per package. Unless, of course, you like having a gtk GUI for everything.
24 :)
25
26 --
27 caveat utilitor
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) Felix Miata <mrmazda@×××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>