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From: Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Why emacs needs gnome parts ?
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:51:05
Message-Id: 1cc2dc830512010246q3ea5a678p5e90f5a578f4f25f@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi I was pretending to emerge emacs to check dependencies and I got
2 amazed when I saw this:
3 # emerge -p emacs
4 [ebuild N ] media-libs/giflib-4.1.4
5 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.6
6 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.3
7 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/libbonobo-2.10.1
8 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/libglade-2.5.1
9 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.17
10 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.10.2
11 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1
12 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2
13 [ebuild N ] app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r2
14 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.1-r2
15 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.10.1-r1
16 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.10.1
17 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.4
18 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.10.1
19 [ebuild N ] x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme-0.8
20 [ebuild N ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.10.1
21 [ebuild N ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.6.5
22 [ebuild N ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.10.2
23 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/startup-notification-0.8
24 [ebuild N ] app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.14-r1
25 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.10.2
26 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r3
27 [ebuild N ] app-editors/emacs-21.4-r1
28
29 my USE flags got only doc because this is a linux box without any
30 graphical interfaces to server some utilities .....
31
32 could some one explain why emacs needs so many graphical parts ?
33 --
34 An application asked:
35 "Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better",
36 so I´ve installed Linux
37
38 --
39 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why emacs needs gnome parts ? erikf@opera.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Erik_Haider_Fors=E9n?=)
Re: [gentoo-user] Why emacs needs gnome parts ? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>