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From: Nick Fortino <nfortino@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:45:42
Message-Id: 49DF9362.6080903@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver by Grant Edwards
1 Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2009-04-10, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Is something broken in the xfce ebuilds? emerge keeps wanting
7 >>> to install xscreensaver even though I've got -xscreensaver in my
8 >>> USE variable in make.conf. Everytime I update, xscreensaver
9 >>> gets reinstalled, and I have to manually "emerge -C" it:
10 >>>
11 >>> # emerge -auvtND world
12 >>>
13 >>> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
14 >>>
15 >>> Calculating dependencies... done!
16 >>> [nomerge ] xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.3 USE="alsa cups oss -minimal -xscreensaver"
17 >>> [nomerge ] xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.4.3 USE="dbus -debug -gnome"
18 >>> [nomerge ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.4.3 USE="dbus lock -debug"
19 >>> [ebuild N ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.07 USE="jpeg opengl pam -new-login -suid -xinerama" 0 kB
20 >>>
21 >> It is because of the "lock" USE flag on xfce-utils. I think it
22 >> uses xscreensaver for the screen-locking function.
23 >>
24 >
25 > I see. An unpleasant side-effect is that the screensaver
26 > function keeps kicking in. I guess I'll remove the "lock" flag
27 > from xfce-utils. Oddly, I have the "lock" flag for xfce-utils
28 > on another similar system, and emerge doesn't think it needs
29 > xscreensaver on that system. Perhpas because I have xlockmore
30 > installed on that system?
31 >
32 >
33 If you don't want a specific package, echo 'x11-misc/xscreensaver' >>
34 /etc/portage/package.mask
35 In this case, the dependency is:
36 lock? ( || ( x11-misc/xscreensaver
37 gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver
38 x11-misc/xlockmore ) )"
39 so either gnome-screensaver or xlockmore will be pulled in to compensate.
40
41 Nick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver Jorge Morais <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com>