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On Friday 13 February 2004 13:24, Timo Lindemann wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Everytime I install a Gentoo on a system, I curse and scream about one |
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> of the major flaws in portage. |
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> Whenever I want just one program emerged, say, on a laptop using xfce4 |
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> on xfree, USE="-kde -esd -arts |
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> -alsa -oss": |
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> I want to emerge anjuta, portage wants gnomelibs, which in turn want |
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> esd. It totally ignores my |
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> useflags, the fact that this notebook does not HAVE sound hardware. |
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> OK, that would be too much for |
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> portage to know, but the USE is ignored anyway. I just want to run |
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> anjuta with xfce4. |
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> Okay, I think. Lets emerge all that shit, and get over with. |
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> Next thing, I want licq. I pretend. Guess what appears on the list? |
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> artsd! I cant stand it, really. |
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> Gentoo would be such a nice distro, but it is ALL BLOATED. The fact |
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> that it is the best distro out |
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> there does make up to that, but it just would be NICER it didn't have |
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> to. So I suggest: Let there be |
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> a mode for Portage where all CRITICAL dependencies are shown, what the |
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> program I want NEEDS to run. |
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> I dont want to have an entire OS installed if I just want one program. |
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> artsd is not a dep from licq, |
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> but somehow entagled in that kde thing, which I dont WANT to have. So, |
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> a distinction needs to be |
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> made between USEFUL deps, or standard deps, and CRITICAL deps, or |
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> needed deps. |
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Basically all those deps should be optional if they are not critical. As |
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such it is more an ebuild issue than a portage issue. Please file bugs |
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for apps that by default have optional deps but don't have a useflag. |
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Paul |
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ps. In this case libgnome is actually able to build with only optional |
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audio support. This is not enabled in the ebuild and is not clear from |
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the (broken) configure script (which does not allow to disable support |
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manually) |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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