From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GTThM-0001nb-71 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:31:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8U1UCSq016355; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:30:12 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (whirlwind.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.76]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8U1Oh69003735 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:24:44 GMT Received: from orpheus (dsl-203-113-237-40.SA.netspace.net.au [203.113.237.40]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE315D0F91 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:24:41 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 as a dependency From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10609291453p3ee66bf2wbf15e0b8916c22cb@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10609291453p3ee66bf2wbf15e0b8916c22cb@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:54:38 +0930 Message-Id: <1159579478.9926.8.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a9714834-877d-428b-960b-dbf35066a47a X-Archives-Hash: 40ad78203e22a2e328b16a94ef4aec52 On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:53 -0700, Grant wrote: > I'm setting up a new system and I've noticed that xorg-x11 isn't > emerged as a dependency of mozilla-firefox or xfce4, although neither > of them will run without it. Can anyone tell me why this is? it also depends on what you define as the normal use of your machine - if you say that your machine is a "desktop" machine, then you _want_ X to be a dependancy of firefox, etc. If however you are setting up a server, then you _don't_ want X to be a dependancy of such. The way to define this, is of course with you profile. If you've just set up a new machine, you may have overlooked the fact that there are now different profiles. /etc/make.profile used to point to (eg) ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 now it should point to ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop or ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/server HTH, -- Iain Buchanan When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers. -- The Wall Street Journal -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list