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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:38:14
Message-Id: 58965d8a0904100938nad6d70by5283beb5229f16f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver by Grant Edwards
1 On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:
2 > Is something broken in the xfce ebuilds? emerge keeps wanting
3 > to install xscreensaver even though I've got -xscreensaver in my
4 > USE variable in make.conf. Everytime I update, xscreensaver
5 > gets reinstalled, and I have to manually "emerge -C" it:
6 >
7 > # emerge -auvtND world
8 >
9 > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
10 >
11 > Calculating dependencies... done!
12 > [nomerge ] xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.3 USE="alsa cups oss -minimal -xscreensaver"
13 > [nomerge ] xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.4.3 USE="dbus -debug -gnome"
14 > [nomerge ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.4.3 USE="dbus lock -debug"
15 > [ebuild N ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.07 USE="jpeg opengl pam -new-login -suid -xinerama" 0 kB
16
17
18 It is because of the "lock" USE flag on xfce-utils. I think it uses
19 xscreensaver for the screen-locking function.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>