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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, excellent people! |
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> Having got X11 installed and "working", I need a window manager. Why |
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> not XFCE, as supplied on the installation disk? |
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> # emerge xfce didn't work - "Portage: Don't know what xfce is". |
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> Scrabbled aroud /usr/portage, then # emerge xfce4 started working. |
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> Why the 4 do I have to type xfce4, not xfce? Anyhow, that's a minor |
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> point. |
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> The major point was that portage refused to install xfce because it said |
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> that |
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> [blocks B ] net-print/lprng (is blocking net-print/cups-1.3.7-r1) |
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> [blocks B ] net-print/cups (is blocking net-print/lprng-3.8.28) |
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> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be |
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> * installed at the same time on the same system. |
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> . I.e., it wants to override my decision to use lprng as print program |
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> and put in cups instead. This is a bit of a cheek! |
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> Why isn't xfce configured merely to install "some print daemon", rather |
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> than specifically cups? For that matter, why must it install a print |
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> daemon at all? Not every X user has a printer or wants to print. |
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> What can I do about this? I really don't want to have to install cups. |
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> -- |
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> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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Like Sebastian said. Just disable the cups useflag (add -cups to the |
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USE section of your make.conf) and Xfce should no longer depend on |
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cups. |
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